SHIPMENT OF DAIRY PRODUCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11040, 18 April 1899, Page 5

SHIPMENT OF DAIRY PRODUCE

PROPOSALS OF THE SHIPPING COMPANIES. [ni TELEGRAPH.— PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday, Tite National Dairy Association has received from the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company the following offer of service for next season's dairy produce, both butter and cheese, the service to bo fortnightly; despatches and deliveries in London and contract to be on the basis of the letter recently published: (1) The steamship companies are prepared to pay coastal freight to Wellington from any grading port in the North Island, provided that the freight does not exceed 10s per ton ; (2) it is the intention of the companies to endeavour to carry out the contract by steamers as nearly as possible of equal speed, so that in addition to despatches from the colony being regular there might be approximately the same regularity in arrivals in London ; (3) the companies are willing to arrange for the despatch of a steamer to arrive in London as near as possiblo on Thursday, November 30 next, and thereafter to commence fortnightly departures for fulfilment of contract; (4) tho contract is to be for the season ending on June 30,1900, and is to include the whole of the dairy produce intended for the English market, so far as the same is controlled by tho National Dairy Association; (5) freights are to remain as at present, and as named in the association's letter. The companies are prepared to leave the offer of this service open for three weeks as requested, in the hope that that may be a sufficient time to enable the association to secure the support of all factories in the North Island, The New Zealand Shipping Company reserves the right of making Lyttclton, in exceptional cases, the final port of call, and both companies decline to be penalised for unavoidable lapses from the terms of the contract, The secretary of the association will at once issue a circular to all registered factories, asking for support of this contract, which he regards as the best ever offered to the North Island.