BUTTER CARGO DAMAGED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 10

BUTTER CARGO DAMAGED

PORT CAROLINE SHIPMENTS THIRTY, THOUSAND BOXES, TAINTED BY BILGE WATER. - FROZEN MEAT ALSO SUFFERS, A Press Association cablegram from London states that some of the Port Caroline's New Zealand butter shipment wag tainted by bilge water, and some frozen meat similarly damaged. The Port Caroline arrived at Auckland to load on September 15 and failed from Wellington on September 26 for England, arriving there on November 5. It would appear from the time that elapsed between the vessel's arrival and advice of the damage to the cargo, that the water in the hold was not detected until unloading had progressed a considerable. way. No information concerning the damage to the cargo had been received np to last evening by the local agents for the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, the Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited. Advice that the butter market had advanced on account of 30,000 boxes on the Port Caroline being more or less dam, aged by water, and thus not available for immediate sale, was received yesterday by Mr. W. W. Bowker in a cable- j gram from London dated November 16. A temporary shortage, the message stated, had been caused.