NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE IN LONDON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE IN LONDON.

IRREGULAR SHIPMENTS. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, April 14.

In his last report to the Agricultural department Mr H. C. Cameron, inspector

of produce in London, reports that during the discharge of the Waimate the New Zealand Shipping Company tested the new elevator to which he referred in his last report. This was an endless chain with carrying arms fitted on to a telescopic frame which was lowered into the hold and driven by a rope from a steam winch on deck. The appliance, says Mr Cameron works very steadily, and with some slight alterations will prove a great improvement on the means of discharge of meat. He was informed that in the discharge of the Tekoa the men working the elevator put out 3900 carcases in the time that the men working the ordinary sling put out 1600. Mr Cameron says the shipments of butter during the past month have been most irregular and unsatisfactory. During eight days, from February 7 to 15, three vessels arrived with 40,642 packages of butter. Then there were no further arrivals until March 1, when four vessels reached London within three days, but with only 5449 packages of butter amongst them. This mismanagement, says Mr Cameron, is amazing. The arrangement of regularity of supplies and shipments must seriously be undertaken by the dairy associations in the colony, and until that is done no satisfaction can be afforded at the London end.