NCREASED BUTTER FREIGHTS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 8

NCREASED BUTTER FREIGHTS

DA TRY INDUSTRY AMEXDIIEEE BILL. ißj Telegraph . — Parliamentary BepoKeJ WELLINGTON, Twtitf.,. Butter freights have gone op to-i/t per box. an increase equal to 39/ £5 ton. In anuonncing this, the PliM Minister told the House this aftesoos that the chairman of the Overseas SW> owners' Committee ha< written ctstiag that, in accordance with iistraetJoe from the Board of Trade, the .rat* d freight on butter had been raised ma 3/ to 3/9 per box. The Australian at* of freight were: Per mai] steftMM, 3/3 per box, plus rive per cent primate tsJ 20 per cent surcharge—toUL 4/1; *I>2»--by cargo steamer t'jc total a»tWJ I 3/9 per box. Towards the end elUst season the Board of Trade notified &ia that it was proposed to increase-ft* rate of freight on butter by sispea»p*J - box. Hft asked them to postpone ing in the increase until May 31. atajj ing butter in stock to bo shipped. Tw : wae accepted, so that the preet itmeant a 50 per teat n« over last eeaeon's freight, an ineraui from 2/fi to 3/0. He had already kskrf the High Commissioner to see if Board oi Trade could make any BM& fication. but, in view of the f«<* *»* tbc minimum rate from Australia is 3A he hardly thought they could expect M? rxopption to be made in tie case * Nt-* Zealand. DAIRY INDUSTRY ACT. The Minister of Agriculture has inf* duc-etl an amendment of the Dak? duetry Act which makeo more ««?* tne prohibition nf export of bsttor Oβ" , '.'.r-.mg more tiian lli per cent of everj peraon brin? liable to a fine »* exceeding toO «ho sends to my i"? store for the purpose of Tteing gwi butter which contains more t*tf lli per centum of uiiter, or eipottJ stumpts to tsport any such bati* Tbc Dairy Inspector » to be p«* powpi to dispose of such butter as S< tl'inkn lit. peculations may be Vβ* p«scribing condition ? subject to <«» applitations for the registratida'f dairies may be granted, including a**t'tion requiring the prior approv&l 'Sf tbo Minifiter of the site, building*!'»» t-quipment of acy dairy.