GISBORNE'S BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 515, 24 May 1909, Page 8

GISBORNE'S BUTTER.

LOCAL GRADER WANTED. The. Hon. Jas.*' Carroli Ims been interviewed at Gisborne by representatives of tho Kia;Ora Co-oporativo J)airy Company, with renewed , requests for the stationing of a butter grador at Uisborne. , Mr. A. Graham, secretary of tho company, said that from Septcmbor to April last they shipped .7150 boxes of butter, of a valuo ol £iy,6SO. The 'charges on coastal freight; cartago, and landing charges at Auckland, freezing; rajlago to Onchunga, and shipping amounted to £500, and. deducting £178 for freezing, which, would have to bo incurred in any caee, the actual expebsea that might bo saved with a local grador'wore £320. In addition to this tho effect of sending tho butter to Auckland and then down to Wellington was a loss of about id. per lb., .amounting to a further loss of perhaps £600. Thoeo figures did - nnt moluuo Itr, liysnor's factory, Tio yearly

increasing quantity of tho trade was a feature of tho question, the cutting up of To Arai having considerably increased thoir output, and they were looking to still further increases. ■ The local output of butter, ho est ™ at 9 d ' /as probably worth £30.000. : jVlr. A. 11.I 1 . Matthews, acting chairman o£ the comoany, suggested that a local grader might fall up his spare timo in other branclies of ihe Agricultural Department's work. Tho agents for tho Shaw,. Savill, and Albion y>. and the New Zealand Shipping Co., the two companies that carried Now Zealand butter Home, had agreed to tho Bhipmoiit of (iisborne butter locally if the grading could be/arranged. Despite tho conditions they laboured under they had paid 9d. per lb. for butter fat locally, which was very satisfactory. Still, with local grading, they ™pu d Probably have had 10d. per lb. .. ihe , Hon. Jas. Carroll, in rc-pW, said ho thought they might follow up tho matter where Mr. M'Nab left it, when he expressed his opinion that it might be possible to appoint a grader for Napier and Gisbome. bmce then there had been an increase in tho industry, and a still greater increase' would result from tho cutting up of further areas by the Government. ..Ho would place the matter whero Mr, M'Nab bad left it before tho Hon. T. Mackenzie, and try and urge him to bring that suggestion 'into effect. IJie appointment of a grader would add to the importanco of the port. Ho agreed that the shipping of the.butter via Auckland must militate against its salo considerably.He,would make full representations on tho subject on lus return to Wellington. The department, he knew, were desirous of conv oontrating' their . work to Wellington, but they had been repeatedly told of the circumstances which existed peculiar to that district. . ■ . ■ • .