CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 154, 3 July 1888, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

BUTTER CASES,

y SUTTJBH CASKS* To tub Editor of thb "Evening Mail," . J -i. Slß— Since writing on thia subject the adyectfaemettts of " Pond's enamelled bmt«r oases" have been brough under my notioe. Tji« frilbwingr sentence from your Parliamentary correspondent, clearly ref rs to.fch.f-86 josses: -"'Sanjulea of tiie pound butter boxes .' J fero on ixhibitioa in the lobby, ana are attracting 'great attention." Th«se oaees are on the grove, principle and can bo all .B9parftt'd, but farther than this, and fiat. j they are too d-ar for bsinpr used ia tho Loo'don trade, nothing. IB kiown to n» at K , 3 j>resent, but it id gratifying to know that ,; rt tirapdo*! ftttempts are being .undo to over- * come thin eerioua diffioulty. It might b* as well for me to explain for the benefit of " Pro Bono Publioo " that your correspondent "■ cannot be chased either as a small farmer, or bb a storekeeper, and if Le "does not know anything of the butter trade* lie at 1 aßt gives his neighbors the benefit of bis ig oranoe, and farther he does know that it ; ' is not true, " that you cannot get three kega of New Zealand butter in the English market of uniform q'nalii y." To my knowledge terft and scores of kega of butter of various qualities have been shipped from Nelson that* in London 1 brought a uniform priop, Whioh is evidence that the quality was pre:ty H uniform. Batter has been weighed on the ' ... Nelson wharfi and the highest allowance "~ made for tho kegs, whioh on arrival in London weighed lOlba per keg less. This shows . how. warm the " cool chamber " must have been, and aooonn ts for its uniformity, This ■tamp of uniformity mask be got rid of, and in its stead varieties of excellence in the ' different brands arising from the different processes adopted. Faotories aro an estab-

lisbed snooess, and transmission of the pro

4ace to England ia good condition is as y^t V, » failure. . Hove the latter assured; then by •'*' l elVmaans let na have factories in the Weimeas, provided always they are pot aoder , the management; of men who have not maclo a " muddle " of every undertaking in whioh '• they have been engaged. ' Perhaps homo knowing dairy farmer will favor us by t»k- . ing np other points in your correspondent's letter. Much in it ia pood; the reference 1 made in it to what is nob in Id is not; good. Lan, &c, D. W. L. . To thb Editor o^the "Evening Mk." Bra.— You will oblige by allowing me spacp in your paper to call attention to the disgrace* \ Jtal and almost untrafficable road in Gibbs' Valley. I had occasion to go to Mr Hodgson /■°. At the top of the Valley, and before I got back again tha conclusion I drew was that it is a perfect disgrace to the Road Board for allow- . ing it to get in each a state, but of course the residents are greatly to blame for not inte.r.viewing the Board, who are ever ready to do < justice. I hope the Board are not going to throw.tho ratepayers money away bj passing the water tabling in the half specification style in whioh it is being done. Perhaps so»e resident will inform the publio what hag been done in this Valley since Mr T.. Gibbs made a bullock track thirty years' ago. It ia very evident it has not fared ao well as 88 Valley. By inserting the foregoing you will oblige Two Wbaxx Mikss of Mud. Wakefield, July 2, 1888.