HANDLING OF BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 8

HANDLING OF BUTTER.

DELAYS IN LONDON. The following is a copy of a letter forwarded by the Sefton Dairj Company to the National Dairy Association, Wellington, and the South Island Dairy Association, Dunedin, respectively:—“With the object of having' action taaen to prevent a possible recurrence of a similar situation at any future time I have been instructed by my directors to draw’ the attention of your executive to the following facts in connection with our export butter on arrival at the Port of London during the early part of this season: (1) The objectionable practice of storing frozen meat on the top of butter in the ship’s hold; (2) the impossibility, therefore, of getting the butter until the meat has been removed; (3) the delay or several weeks that takes place in removing the meat owing to congestion in London meat stores; (4) the enforced inability during the whole of this time to get at the butter in order to place it on the market; (s)\the loss which the early shipments of buHer thus sustained, as between 200 s when they arrived and 127 s when they were got out and sold, and the substantial, though lesser, loss on succeßsive arrivals in London owing to similar causes.”