Commercial.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10360, 21 July 1896, Page 2

Commercial.

HrotAT.n Office. Monday evonlng. From tho Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company's London market report, dated 12th June, we ollp the following :- Unfortunately we hava again tp record 1 damaged cargoes ; one of the vessslß had 724 carcases and 186 parts condemned by tho Banltary officers at the ship's side, another. had 681 and 80 parts; theso numbers only represent a very small proportion of the damaged meat— the very worst only would ibe condemned at tho docks, but the majority of the meat on board would be exposed to tho -same influences to a lesser extent, and be so Jar damiged, spotted with mildew, bent and flattened out of shape, or otherwise out of Order, as to be considerably lessened in value and so depreciated In quality that the reputation Of tho meat will Buffer. Damaged cargoes have always had a bad effect, and sometimes cannot be avoided from mishaps, but the frequenoy with which vessels of a line appear on the health officer's blaok list, and the rarer mention, or the entire absopoe, of others, point to management, and not mishap, being chiefly responsible for the mischief. Laat year parcels of unsound meat ■were found in 44 vessels; this year, to date, .6291 oarcases and 1185 parts from 23 vessels from Außtralia and New Zoaland have been condemned on dolivery ex ship by the sanitary offloera of tho port of liondon,