EXPORT OF DAIRY PRODUCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11400, 18 April 1899, Page 5

EXPORT OF DAIRY PRODUCE.

REGULARITY OF SHIPMENT.

(Per Unitkd Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, April 17.

The National Dairy Association lias received from the New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company the following offer of service for the next season's dairy produce, botli butter and cheese—namely, the service to be fortnightly despatches and /deliveries in London, and the contract to be on the basis of the letter recently published. 1. The steamship companies are prepared to pay coastal freight to Wellington Ironi any grading port in the North Island provided thut the freight does not exceed 10a 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 actdition#o 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 steamers to arrive in London as near as possible on Thursday, 30th November next, and .thereafter to commence fortnightly departures for the fulfilment of the contract.

4. The contract is to be for season ending on 30th June, 1900, and is to include 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 open for three weeks as requested, in the hope that that may be sutiieient 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 Lyttelton, in exceptional cases, a, final port of civil, and both companies decline to be penalised for unavoidable lapses from the twins of the contract.

The secretary of the association will at once issue a circular to all registered factories asking for the support of this contract, -which he regards as the best ever offered to the North Island.