BUTTER FOR ITALY.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 12, 26 May 1911, Page 4

BUTTER FOR ITALY.

A COLONIAL OPENING. “ One firm of importers has had two calls this week from agents • desiring to contract for 4000 and 3000 boxes respectively per month for next season shipment to Genoa,” says the London correspondent of an Australian paper in an article concerning butter. “The house in question has fixed up a shipment of 1000 boxes direct from Sydney to Naples. This business wears a promising look at the moment, but to carry it through on permanent lines, on a proper basis, the Orient Company should certainly put Naples and London on the same basis for freights, and not surcharge the former 2s. I id. per cwt. I understand that the dfficulty is at your end, an,d not in Fenchurch Avenue. The shipping company should give a helping hand to a new trade. “The ideal way of working the business would be by N.D.L. direct steamer to Genoa. Efforts are being made to arrange accordingly. Genoa is the commercial port of South Europe, and is becoming more and more important year by year. Australia should establish direct relations with Genoa for the conveyance of refrigerated goods. Fruit butter, and meat are handled there, and the two last-named articles are exported regularly from Argentina to Genoa.

"The way of dispatching Australian boxed butter from London is via Milan by rail, a trip of about 10 to 12 days, as there is no regular interchange between the two cities in such goods, on the outward journey. From Milan to London goods only take six days. As can be understood, the butter is not improved by its 10 to 12 days' passage. Sent direct from Sydney butter would be 10s. a cwt better value."