BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 200, 24 August 1929, Page 23

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

FREIGHT AND INSURANCE.

SHIPPING CHARGES REDUCED

DAIRY BOARD'S ANNOUNCEMENT.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

' WELLINGTON, this day

Reductions in shipping freight and insurance rates on butter and cheese are announced by the Dairy Produce Board. The freight rate on all dairy produce shipped on and after September 1, irrespective of the date of the final departure of the loading vessel, will be: Butter, 4/ per box, less 12A per cent (old rate 4/, less "i per cent); cheese, Id per lb, less 12i per cent (old rate |d per lb, less 7J per cent). '

The reduction in insurance premiums that comes into force in respect of all dairy produce shipped 5n vessels sailing finally from the Dominion on and after September 1 is as follows: —To the United Kingdom: Butter, reduced from 7/3 per cent to 7/ per cent; cheese, from 9/ per cent to 8/2 per cent. To New York and Halifax: Butter, reduced from 6/7 per cent to 6/4 per cent; cheese, from S/4 per cent to 7/6 per cent. Montreal and inland towns, via Halifax: Butter, reduced from 7/3 per cent to 7/ per cent; cheese, from 8/9 per cent to 7/10 per cent. Panama, Vancouver and Vistoria, 8.C.: Butter (as before). 6/ per cent; cheese, reduced from 8/1 per cent to 7/3 per cent. Canadian inland towns, via Vancouver: Butter, reduced from 6/7 per cent to 6/4 per cent; cheese, from 8/4 per cent to 7/6 per cent.