BUTTER FREIGHTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 15

BUTTER FREIGHTS

NEW CONTRACT. When accepting the reduction of freight on butter and cheese offered by the oversea shipping companies, the Australian Dairy Produce Export Board requested that the new contract entered into with the shipowners should be dated as from August 17, the late from which the meat contract operated. Private cable messages were received by butter traders in Melbourne on September 14, stating that the shipowners have acceded to this request. Exports of butter and cheese consequently will receive a refund of 71 per cent, on freight paid from August 17 to date. Although the concession offered by shipowners on freights of butter to London for this export season afford some relief to the dairy industry in Australia, traders in Melbourne regret that the shipping companies could not determine the freights on the same scale between Australia and Britain as between New Zealand and Britain. In the negotiations it was pointed out to the shipowners that the steamer mileage showed very little difference between the voyages.