DAIRY BOARD REPORT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1931, Page 16

DAIRY BOARD REPORT

A VALUABLE REVIEW

Reference based on advance sheets has already been made in "The Post" to the annual report 6f the New Zealand: Dairy Produce Board to 31st July. The compete report is now available, and is a, valuable neview of the export aspect of • ithe lindustary. Exports of-butter and cheese .notwithstanding low prices, were of the •Value of £16,478,383 for 1930-31; for the past', ten -years they ~amount to JdEieMOS^; and for the ten. yearß 1911 to 1920, inclusive with the "war year* thrown in, they were £56,534,027, ao that , they have multiplied by nearlyl2% times. 'With' herd-testing insuring higher production per cow, the use of fertilisers and the 'national 'growth of the industry, the increase in. the next decade should be much greater in proportion. . ._ The-board's annual report is well edited and? ably ...compiled, being replete with infofmation of the Dominion's premier in- . durtry. Graphs, tables*, a»d illustrations ' > increase its value as a work of reference. :'? Much is made of the publicity work "pushV ing" New, Zealand butter and cheese in t.^a>iow; parts of England, particularly in tlfe densely populated parts. '<:■■,. COURSE OF MARKETS. ' Dalgety and Co. have received :s»btn Messrs" Samuel. Page and Son, London, a statement of British imports if butter and cheese for the 12 months ended 30th June last, also for the years MBB and 1930, together with diagrams showing, the course of the markets for.the past three years. Increases of British imfets for 1931 over 1930 were 732,058cwt Suiter and 141,325cwt cheese. The' New iiiealand butter market is shown to have fallen during the year from 138s as at Ift July, 1930, to 110s as at 30th June, 1931; and white and coloured cheese fell torn 78«-and 83s to 54s and 57s respectively. The information is compiled . W »g to be accessible at a glance. .