A NEW SUCCESS IN THE BUTTER TRADE.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 124, 24 April 1895, Page 4

A NEW SUCCESS IN THE BUTTER TRADE.

BIUXE CASiA'O BEATS I'UOIT. Good nowa ior butter exporters has readied Melbourne—namely, that the trial shipment of butter per the s.s. .. Thermopylae as ordinary cargo 40s per ton measurement, instead of in the freezing chambers at £8 3s 4d per ton weight, has proved a complete success. In the first week in September last Messrs Holderson and Neilson packed a ton of Melbourne winter butter in accordance with the process patented by Mr Sewell, consisting of the use of large brine casings which keep the butter cool and preserved. The butter reached London shortly before the Christmas holidays, and was taken to Messrs Lid stone and Co., of 37 Great Tower street, who were informed of the conditions under which it was packed and shipped. The firm is reported to have predicted certain failure, but the splendid condition of the butter fairly astonished the experts. Mr Lidstone stated that had he not seen the buttei himself he could not have believed that it could have arrived in such excellent and marketable condition. It is said that this mode of shipment, though not a new idea in the colonics, is calculated to fairly revolutionise the Australasian butter trade, as it allows a saving of many pounds per ton upon the existing methods of consignment, without deteriorating the article. One firm in London has cabled to Melbourne for another five tons of butter, to be shipped under similar conditions.