TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 87, 2 May 1901, Page 2

TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA.

Ths six-weekly service to Sou'h Africa which was recently inaugur&tcd appears to be scirce'y sufficient for the purpose. The Rangatira, which left on the 12th inst., took the followi'ir cargo from Now Zealand foi- Soutli Africa—4ooo carcases of lamb, 3000 carcases of mut'on, 1000 qnatters o c beef, 648 sides of pork, 1582 boxes of butter, 90 crates of rabbits, 2045 s\cks< oat?, 50 sacks oatmeal, 791 racks bran, 500 gicks barley, 1388 cases preserved meats, 81 oases cheeee, and 24 paokages poul'ry. The next -boat on the service is the Indrafriyo which is to sail on the Ist June, and already the space available for produce for South Africa is taken, the insulating space having all been bespok n fur meat and butter for that part: of the wi r'd. It is understood thit a good deal of butcer will be shut out, and cs tbo next bo the Tekca, will nit be going until sis we Its after the Indrarnayo, exporters Will hive considerable difficulty in get'iog thtir goods away. Piesent indication aro that the exppviment of a six-weekly ferviee will meet wit h a large measure of eucaesg. Effjrts wi 1 probably be made to induce the Government to give a sufficient subsidy to enab'e it to be convert#! into u monthly Re'.vice Tre Now Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaar, S will, and Ty?ef Company have decid-d to reduce the freigh's ovar tho colony on the followiug lines in connection with the reccn'ly inangurated steam service to South Africa Flour, 40s per ten o' 2000 b ; wheit", 40j per tan of 22401b; o*ts, 50j per toa ; o impressed hay, 90s I per ton.