SHIPMENT OF BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 29, 29 October 1907, Page 2

SHIPMENT OF BUTTER.

, IWHAT.-AUCKLAND WANTS. -, . ■ "' (PliOM OUR OWN COBBESrONDENT.) ''-. ; '' : !. ... ,r Auckland,, October 28. The. article:published in the "\Horald '■- recently, regarding,-the 'riecossfty for: Home vessels which carry butter,. etc., > making' Auckland the .final,port of. departure from New Zealand,;'has aroused considerable... interest in. local, commercial and shipping circles. Tho. opinion is expressed: on all sides that tho time has. arrived when, the exigencies of Auckland's trade demand'a inore efficient service. , Speaking for the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, the secretary. (Mr. i Stringer) said that, there was no reason, > so far-as. ho could see, why Home boats'should: not loacKthe bulk of, .tho-Auckland, butter here, even if they did not depart direct from this port. ..The vessels, could, for. instance,, lake- : three-fourths of the, butter on ...board! hero, and receive the remaindorat .Wellington, and , this would to some considerably, extent represent the getting of the Auckland butter, on to the: Homo market in better, con.dition. . Then, again, Mr.-Stringer, asked, was ■it necessary that all the Now Zealand butter, should go :homo in, one bottom? If not, ; t might be arranged, between tho New Zealand Shipping Company and tho Shaw Savill Company to have a boat leaving hero once a.fort-' night. Tho butter had to 'be shipped once a fortnight, and .tho wholo aim-of the dairying companies was to get it ori< to the London market with tho least possible delay. If that arrangement could be arrived at the Auckland butter would be going, home in a separate ship, and would reap the advantage of special--advertisement, thereby. ■• The whole export from; Wellington was-fixed up , by the National Dairy Association, and Auckland was dragged into that.'-arrangement. There was no reason why the Auckland factories should not now have an arrangement of their own, and get tho New Zealand Shipping Company'and the Shaw Savillo Company to make Auckland the port of departure once a fortnight for a refrigerating boat. If this could not be arranged, it was still quite'possible to have alternative ports or departure giving Auckland a direct boat .once a mouth. Auckland, ho added, was now the largest exporting province in the Dominion, and tho great trado of the.future w,as bound .to centre at Auckland .as the country developed, and thereforo shipping facilities, in. accordance with the importance of tho great Northern centre should bo provided. .'. , ,;