FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Otago Witness, Issue 3196, 16 June 1915, Page 20

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

PROPOSED REDUCTION OF ALLOWANCES. CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. Messrs Kaye and Carter are in receipt of cable advice from their London agents (Messrs Gilbert Anderson and Co.), stating that they think it important for freezing companies to take the present opportunity to abolish the London allowance of 11b per carcase on lambs and 21b per. carcase on mutton, and reducing the allowance off the hot weight to 4 per cent., giving the London brokers the necessary notice that meat will be sold only on the net weight. BUTTER AND CHEESE MARKET. The National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand has received a cablegram from Messrs Mills and Sparrow, London. stating- that the market price of New Zealand butter is 140 s, the market being steady. Cheese: 94s to 96s j market easier. SHIPMENTS OF CHEESE. Mr J. R- Scott (secretary of the South Island Dairy Association) states that ho is arranging to get ail the cheese in Otago and Southland away by the Paparoa, the Remuora, and the Athenio. _ Mr Scott also states i—“ Under all the difficulties owing to the war it will bo generally allowed that factories have been well served by the shipping companies, and I am glad to say that all this cheese is to be taken at the contract rate. Afterwards freight will be per lb, instead of id.’’