FALL IN DAIRY EXPORTS
Butter Down 22 Per Cent. On Last Year
SOME RECOVERY IN CHEESE Exports of butter and cheese from New Zealand for the first seven months of, the current dairy season are considerably lower than for the same period of last season. The fall in butter exports is 22 per cent. For the month of February cheeie exports showed an advance on the figures for February, 1938, but butter exports showed a drop. At this time last year the rain produced a second flush for the season, but this year’s dry spell is proving ’disastrous, and the full effect on exports has not yet been revealed.
Shipments of butter in February at 11,279 tons were 1544 tons less than those in Rebruary, 1938. For the seven months of the season, exports total 76,010 tons, a decline of 16,955 tons on the same period last season. Cheese, on the other hand, has recovered some of the ground lost earlier in the year. Shipments in February were 11S2 tons more than last year at 7929 tons. This has reduced the deficiency over the seven months’ period anfl exports, at 45,986 tons, are now only 2313 tons, or 5 per cent, lower. Exports of butter and cheese for the first seven months of the past throe seasons are as follows: —
Totals 45,986 48,229 50,758
The urgent need for more rain to offset the effects of a long period of drying winds is now becoming more apparent., Hopes of recovering the ground lost earlier in the'season are now dwindling. Butter production in February was 3 per cent, lower than in February last year, and with half of the present month gone with no appreciable general rainfall a further decline appears probable.
BUTTER. 1938-39 (tons) 1937-38 (tons) *1936-37 (tons) August .10,089 10,738 9,987 September 9,309 11,965 8,686 October .. , 8,383 14,239 13,630 November 13,570 9,490 12,020 December . , 12,951 18,195 17,808 January .. . 10,429 15,515 17,085 February . . 11,279 12,823 12,669 Totals 76,010 92,965 91,885 ♦Export lished this record of 140,003 tons estabseason. CHEESE. 1938-39 1937-38 1936-37 (tons) (tons) (tons) August . 6,141 5,829 5,302 September 6,001 6,712 4,281 October - 3,706 6,208 5,5(55 November 7,126 4,864 6,589 December . . 8,576 9,897 11,253 January . 6,507 8,042 8,786 February 7,929 6,747 8,802
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 8
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372FALL IN DAIRY EXPORTS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 8
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