BUTTER SHIPMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1977, 6 February 1914, Page 10

BUTTER SHIPMENTS.

. OUR FIRST & SECOND MARKETS. CRy Tolecrapli.—Special Correspondent.! Auckland, February 5. . V,, Owing, to' the. extensive trade which ■has ,been opened up with tlio ; Pacific ; Coast, during ,tho last two years, there has been a falling off in tlitf'quantity of butter Shipped from Auckland to London direct./' Previously tho consignments sent by , tho' Canadian , and Aus.tralasian steamers. to' / Vancouver were comparatively small, but. a comparison of'.'tho last two shipments—one to London and ono to "Vancouver—shows -thai 20,800 boxes wevo taken by the Zealandic for Home,' and 23,000 by the Niagara to Canada. Up to the date, of and including the shipment sent by the Zealandici the export from Auckland to London for < the period showed a decrease of over 8000. boxes. . iOn Monday next, however, tho New Zealand Shipping Company's ~' liner .Hunimii will commence to load a cargo of dairy produce-which' includes, about 30,000 boxes "of butter and, 1500 crates of cheose, This shipment . will represent tho accumulation of about three and . will put a much more healthy'aspect on tlio figures for the season. The tij'st shipment of cheese sent to London totalled 2600 crates. The prices quoted- in recent-cablegrams from Home'for'New <Zealand butter -range from 116s. to 1205., per cwt., and reckoning ''tho Hurunui's shipment'at 1365., the'ivaluo f.o.b. at Auckland would be £87,000. ' :