Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The trade in Great Britain

Collection:: Economics Books

2 (d) Ex-Store—If, when goods are placed in cold store, the holder does not wish to reserve them for his own stalls or shops, if he has any, he sells either *“ ex-store ”’ or *“ delivered to market.” [n the first case, the seller merely makes the sale at the price fixed per Ib. He informs the stock clerk in his office, who issues a delivery order in favour of the buyer; this calls upon the store to deliver to the buyer the quantity and quality named. The order, together with a provisional invoice, is sent over to the buyer who pays a cheque on account. The invoice must be provisional because as the sale is on ex-store weights, these cannot be ascertained until the goods are drawn. When the buyer has received his delivery order from the seller, he lodges it with the cold store. He can then draw as he requires. At the time of the sale, the seller informs the buyer of the number of days he is allowed in which to draw the goods. This is termed the period of “free storage,” at the end of which time, after notice has been sent to the buyer, the seller may instruct the cold-store company to weigh, at the buyer’s expense, any meat remaining undrawn. The object of this is to obtain the weights for final invoice purposes, and also to transfer any further storage charges to the buyer. When the buyer sells the whole parcel, or any part of it, he himself issues delivery orders on the store for any quantity within the limits of his purchase. In selling “delivered to market,” the seller defrays the charges incurred in placing the goods on any stall in the market which the buyer may direct. These amount to 4d. per stone of 8 lb., so that the difference in price between an ‘ ex-store ” and a “ delivered ” sale amounts to one-sixteenth of a penny per Ib. Frequently a buyer will buy goods on a delivered basis and sell them at the same price ex-store, i.e., his profit is 3d. per tone. ie) Ex-Stall— This term is applied to sales by a market stallholder to retail buyers. It calls for no explanation. (ii) Surveys on Arrival. (a) For Insurance.—On the arrival »f meat at a port in this country, it is usually surveyed by two expert surveyors for the assessment of damage for insurance purposes. As, however, the insurance contract covers a period of usually sixty days in cold store, the survey is sometimes postponed until this period has almost expired so as to include any damage which may have occurred in the cold store itself. The insurance covers damage arising from faults in the refrigerating machinery, damage through sea-water getting into contact with the meat, and broken shanks and mis-shapen carcases due to faults in handling and packing. The surveyors, one of whom represents the underwriter and the other the owner of the goods, =xamine 10 per cent. of the parcel, taken * as it rises,” %.e., not specially selected, and assess the damage over the whole con- signment on the basis of the condition of the proportion examined. The two survevors must agree as to the assessment of damage; 24Q9N

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