Export of Dairy Produce.
!t?y TKI-KOKAPH.) Wellington, April 17. The National Dairy Association hu roceived from the Npw Zealand Shipping Company and* the Shaw-Savill and Albion Company the following offer of service for the next season's dairy produce, both butter and cheese—namely, tho service to bo fortnightly despatches and deliveries in I ondon, and the contract to bo on tho basis of tho letter recently published. 1. The steamship companies are prepared to pay the coastal freight to Wellington from any grading port in the North Island provided that the freight does not exceed 10» per ton. 2. It is the intention of the companies to endeavor to carry out tho contract by steamers as nearly as possible of equal speoa ( so that, in addition to despatches from tho colony being regular, there might bo approximately the same regularity in arrivals In London.
3. The companies are willing to arrange for the despatch of steamers to arrive In London as near as possible on Thursday, 30th November next, and thereafter to commonos fortnightly departures for tho fulfilment of the contract.
4. (The contract is to be for season ending on 30th June, 1900, and is to inoludo the whole of the dairy produce intended for the English market, so far as the same is controlled by the National Dairy Association. 5. Freights to remain as at present, and as named in the association's letter. The companies are prepared to leave the offer of this service opon for three week* as requested, in tho hope that _ may be sufficient time to enablo tho association to secure the support of all factories in tho North Island. The New Zealand Shipping Company reserves the right of making LyS"
teltoo, In exceptional cum, a final port of call, and both companies decline to b« 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 the rapport of this contract, which he regards as the best ever offered to the North Island.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7494, 18 April 1899, Page 2
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343Export of Dairy Produce. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7494, 18 April 1899, Page 2
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