MONEY FROM BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2620, 16 November 1915, Page 8

MONEY FROM BUTTER

j Since the commencement of the dairying season a total of 128,692 boxes of Liuttar'have been shipped from Auckland, representing an estimated market value of approximately £470,OOO; The fourth shipment left for' London by the R.M.s. Tprajvina. It comprised 45,189 boxes, estimated: to produce between £160,000 and £170,000. The four .shipments are estimated to be worth about £470,000. .. The quantity shipped so far this season. exceeds, the total for . the corresponding period of last year by 53,518 boxes, but this oompariison does not fully indicate -tho increased value of-this year's exports. . Whereas lost season the price was Is.,'per 1b.,-it'is now "from 16. 3d. > to Is. -id.-,' eo .that up to the present wo have sent away butter that.will probably bring in £250,000 iriore than did the first four shipments of last year. This season's , shipments of cheese aggregate 4789 crates.. The Turakina . took 2387 crates for London, and she was so fully loaded that some 113 orates 1 ' had to bo left behind. Her cargo included 6400 quarters of beef, valued at approximately £18,500 f.o.b. The next vessel to load produce for London will be the Eangatira, leaving about November 23. It is expected that Bhe will take 45,000' boxes'butter' and 3500 crates:'of cheese.- ,