The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1885.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4286, 23 April 1885, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1885.

A pkivate h'rm at Christchurch has furnished Mr M. K. Miller with the following returns of shipments of frozen .sheep, that appear to ho more complete than anything , we have yet seen published. It will he seen that the shipments were comparativelysmall, and that they extended from May, 1883, to September, 1884 :—

weight pTTluuid, i.;-.us woi'-lit) ; loss in weight pr-r luwl (-■- L '' > ~ equal 2>s ; profit per l.cul, 'Js ; nett profit. £I lio ß l'S three shipments consisted of twi-tooth wethers. / Inter Jip-ng* than Ihoso eiiumomtod above «■ "J and the account wvlcs received thib mont.n

show a net return per sheep of 20s Bd, as against 17s 6d, the local value at time of shipment. In a report they have lately issued Messrs Roberta and Davidson call attention to the following points : —

At present each cargo which comes to England is usually made up of a number of parcels consigned to different consignees, and the necessity for keeping each lot separate, to be accounted for by itself, creates much additional expense, as a great number of hands are employed to overtake the long and troublesome sorting before the carcasses can be stowed away in the freezing stores ; besides which the time occupied in separating the different lots we believe often causes injury to the carcasses, as they become soft, and lose what the butchers call their " bloom."

In the case of sailing ships it also frequently happens that arrangements are made to keep tho meat frozen on board for perhaps a month after tlio vessel's arrival, and when a consignee wishes to get delivery of his parcel, perhaps to avail himself of some special opportunity to sell it advantageously, he cannot obtain it because it docs not suit tho views of another consignee to remove his lot of sheep, which meanwhile blocks the passive of discharging. With a view to effecting a remedy for these drawbacks, we very strongly impress upon the shippers the necessity for making every cargo what is g-cnerally termed in the colonies a " common pot;" in other words, let each parcel of sheep shipped lose its individuality once it is put on board, and the cargo be sold as if belonging to one owner, and each shipper can then receive his share of the gross not proceeds in proportion to the weight of meat contributed by him. We think that tho advantages to be gained by adopting this suggestion must be so manifest to any person acquainted with the business, that any argument commending its adoption need not be entered on.

18S3. I May Angnst OctoliC-r 1 188-1. ■ -March September .. "Date. British Queen .. Catalonia Ionic Ship. Shipping 3 ° g Weight. lbs. 250 19,647 423 30,244 123 8,233 I 23S 14,317 159 10,741 209 13,273 395 28,44S Landing Weight. lbs. 18 792 28,694 S.047 Nett Proceeds! London. £ s. d. 240 10 10 205 12 1 67 19 0 Proceeds of Skins. £ s. 41 15 99 G 31 10 d. 1 0 I i Proceeds of Fat. £ s. d. 31 0 0 38 13 0 11 7 3 Proceeds with Skins and Fat. Per lb. d. 3.83 2.72 3.23 Proceeds Local j with Value at Skins date of and Fat. Shipm't. | Per head. I 25'16/- ! .Si- I 15 6 20/Profit. £ s. d. 118 15 0 £ s. d. 21 8 0 12 6 0 Loss. Ionic .. .. I Aorangi .. .. I Doric Aorangi 14,103 10,379 13,0fi6 27.67S 119 17 5 82 3 2 79 6 6 271 5 10 27 6 20 4. 39 17 102 5 0 3 4 17 15 3 13 15 11 IS 9 3 44 4 4 2.76 2.59 2.49 3.53 13/10 I 14/7 13/2 21/1 16/15 '6 9 IS 4 4 12 9 29 12 2 110 5 5 i Totals 1802 j 124,903 120,819 1066 14 10 362 S 10 175 5 0 3.08 : 1 179 243 11 6 G3 G 2