DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19128, 2 October 1924, Page 8

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORTS

MARINE INSURANCE REDUCTION ARRANGEMENTS FOR SHIPPING. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 1. Mr. T. C. Brash, secretary of the Dairy Produce Control Board, made the following statement to-day with rcgaid to merino ms-uiancc on dairy produce: The Board, and also its overseas 7*.legation. have for some time been investigating the question of marine inS’irjnce on bury produce, with a view t.i the pos rbility of a lower Tate of premium being obtained. It has been found that to secure the best terms it will be necessary for the Board to contract for the whole of the marine insurance on butter and cheese exported. Subjec to certain details being satisfactorily concluded, the Board had now arranged for this. It is hoped that the. contract will operate from shipments being made by s.s. Oran and Arawa, commencing to load about October 23. Steamers commencing to load prior to this date, viz., the s.s. Maimoa, M.'imari, Kaikoura, Rotorua, fnd Port Caroline, will not be included. The contract Is to end with the butter and cheese shipped on or before August 31. 1925. I’etinite advice regarding the commencement of the contract will be sent to exporters when arrangements are finally completed. Insurance will be done through the New Zealand Marine Under writers* Association. The policy will probaoiy be in the name of one member of that Association, but this Insurance will be divided amongst, members. The rates of premium will 'be butter, 7s per cent, cheese 8s 6d, the risk to commence m the factory, with an additional Is per cent, where transhipment is incurred. These rates cover produce by any steamer and any route to ports on each coast of North America, in Great Britain and the Continent of Europe between Bordeaux and Hemburg, both inclusive. Under the policy produce is covered against all risks from any cause whatsoever, including war and strike risks, shortage of fuel and malicious damage to shipping. While the Board has not yet iny contract wth shipping companies, ar d pro.i.ce i”. :><ing shipped under contract made by dairy associations, which ends on October 31 next, a good -deal of attentior Las been given to this matter. The shipment of produce made in September is not altogether satisfactory, especially from th? Auckland port, and the Board has been urging upon the overseas shipowners’ allotment committee the necessity for the I prompt despatch of early shipments. From shipping companies’ point of view the difficulty is that in September and October very little refrigerated cargo other than dairy produce is offering for shipment, and it is difficult to secure a full cargo. Shipping companies express their willingness to sail without a full ship so far as ordinary cargo is concerned, but expect at least a reasonable cargo of refrigerated produce. It may be necessary in future to consider concentrating early shipments at one port with a view to quicker despatch at different ports. The position is about as follows:

Auckland.—September butter will be shipped by the Rotorua, loading October 5 to 8, and the Maimoa loading October 8 to 11, but tho Rotorua will not finally sail from Wellington until October 17. The Port. Caroline, loading at Auckland October 17 and sailing from Wellington November L and tho Orari, sailing from Auckland on November 12, will lift all butter up io about October 25. The steamers mentioned will also lift all available cheese.

New- Plymouth.—The lonic, Maimoa and Rotorua will clear all butter and cheese up to almost the end of September, and the Port. Caroline, Arawa and Orari, sailing before the middle of November, will clear everything up to about October 25. Wellington (including Patea and Wanganui). —The lonic and Maimoa will clear up butter and cheese to Sep tember 20, and the Port Caroline, Arawa and Orari will take everything up to about October 25. In the South Island produce is nol available for shipment so early as in the north, and shipments will com menee with the Port Caroline and Arawa, loading in the South in the latter half of October, and finally sailing from the North early in Nove- her. These steamers will clear everything from Lvttelton, Timaru, Dunedin and the Bluff up to the date of loading there, and will leave these ports prac ticallv in the same position as those in the North. Space for November pro duce has not yet been allotted, but is now being dealt with.