SHIPPING BEEF TO ENGLAND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3148, 18 December 1922, Page 7

SHIPPING BEEF TO ENGLAND.

The secretary of the Farmers' Union in the Wairarapa supplies the following figures:— ' A Wairarapa. farmer exported 66 bullocks and 6 cow® last season and has just received hi« returns, which work out as follows : Freezing charges, £228 10s 7d'; railage to Wellington, £36 5s 2d; marine insurance, £27 14s 4d; hill of lading and exchange, £6 15s Sd: freight to London, £323 Os sd; storage, £65 18e 6d; London charges for landing, port rates, storage, delivery, fire and strike insurance, £257 8s Id; total, £945 12s 9d. „ ~, Credits: 23421'bs fat, £2 8s lOd; 72 hides. £52 4s 1 Od'; tongue's and tails, £8 lis 6d: one-quarter condemned, 6s 7d; cule of 41,1851bs meat in London, £537 7s 8d; total, £6OO 18s 7d. Loss. £344 Mfi 2d - , -» i i The farmer had to buy the 66 bullocks and l 6 cows at a cost of £678; if this i,s added on his total loss will be Another farmer bought 59 bullocks at £ls per head; it cost liim £3 per head to fatten them, making them £lB per head 1 , or £1062 for the line. He exported them and on getting his return* found that freezing, freight, celling, and other charges was £265 10s more than the meat brought in London. His loss then was £1062 (the cost of the bullocks) plus £265 10s loss' on the sale of the meat.