CHILLED BEEF TRADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22850, 4 October 1937, Page 7

CHILLED BEEF TRADE

WORKS FACILITIES EXTENSION AT WAITARA [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] NEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday Substantial additions to Messrs. Thomas Borthwick and Sons' Waitara freezing works to cater for the expanding chilled meat export trade are to begin immediately.

Over several years experimental shipments have bean made from Waitara, but owifig to the lack of up-to-date facilities they have not been successful. Last year the firm sent Taranaki chilling stock to the Feilding works for treatment.

The practicability of export having boon proved, the firm has decided to make additions to the Waitara works to provide the most up-to-date chiller and storage space. Preliminary work has been begun.

PERFUMERY TRADE

RAPID REVIVAL IN PROGRESS The perfumery trade, which suffered greatly during the depression, is now rapidly reviving. Scents continued to sell during the slump, but many people had to make-shift with the cheap varieties produced by dissolving synthetic substitutes for floral essences in some vehicle less costly than rectified spirit. " Now," states the Manchester Guardian Commercial, " there is a swing over to the costly blends of odours, imprisoned in expensive and beautiful vials, which are in turn packed in attractive cases. Bulgarian attar of roses, the price of which works out at more than a penny a drop when bought in wholesale quantities, was almost a drug on the market for years; the banks were tired of lending money on stocks, and districts which for generations had been devoted to rose cultivation were gradually going over to crops for which there was a readier sale. The precious attar is coining into its own again, and stocks old and new aro being steadily reduced. Ambergris, an even more expensive product, is another ' raw material ' of the perfumery industry which is being requisitioned again, while the turnover in lavender, neroli and geranium oils —all of them costly—has greatly expanded of late."

MINING NEWS YIELDS OF COMPANIES Argo (West Coast).—l32oz. from 19,000 yards in 190 hours. Gillespie's Beach (South Westland). —42oz.* lGdwt. in 69 hours. Mtttuki Junction (Murchison).— 40oz. smelted gold from 22,000 yards in 123 hours. Maori Gully (West Coast). —48oz. 6d\vt. in 133} hours. Nemona (West Coast).—No wash-up. "Kew River (West Coast), —38oz. from 11,000 yards in 121 hours. Worksop (West Coast).—lßoz. from 7000 yards in 119 hours. COTTON, RUBBER, COPRA, ETC. (Received October 3, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2 (Quotations on September 25 in parentheses.) Cotton. —Spot, 4.89 d (5.08 d) a lb; November delivery, 4.73 d (4.86 d October). Rubber.—Para, 9Jcl (9Jd) a lb; plantation and smoked, 8 8-16 d (8 13-16 d). Jute.—October-Nover.iber shipments, £2O 13s 9d (£2O 17s (Jd> a ton. Copra.—October-November shipments, South Sea, sun-dried. £l4 17s 0d to London and Hotter lam (£l4 ss) a ton; South Soa, smoked, £l4 15s to Marseilles and Genoa (£l4 2s tid); plantation, Rabaul, hot air dried, £ls 12s 6d to London and Rotterdam (£ls). Linseed 0i1.—£32 5s (£32 ss) a ton. Turpentine.—34s (34s 3d)_ a cwt.