Dairy Produce.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 71, 18 September 1894, Page 3

Dairy Produce.

" — .» first of this season's butter will go lorward by.the SB. Aorangi on October *4*£ f but this wdl only be a small shipment, as the season is very late owing to thi want of grass. Factories and cream- < ones generally intended to start on September Ist, but owing to the very small supply of milk forthcoming it was m lome instances deemed advisable not to commence operations for anotoer two or three weeks. Arrangements have been made for freight from the Tarana_i district at 40s per ton a reduction which will mean that almost all the dairy produce from the West Coait w 11 be sent to Wel- j Ung«on, in which case there will be a , special weekly mgbt tram with cool ! tracks provided for its conveyance, There is now no reason why butter and cheese should not reach the cool stores m Wel. ' lington in first class condition instead of being greatly damaged by the hot weather, aa hitherto occ.sionallv happened when it waa shipped by boat. It is to be hoped the Dairy Bill will have come into operation by the commencement of tbe •eaaon, and. if so, there ia every reason to expect that the facilities for despatching dairy produce from the factories to the direct steamers will be so improved that the produce can be landed in London in a much better co_dition than has been possible hitherto, and to enable New Zealand to complete successfully with Victoria. It is estimated that aometbing like four thousand tons of butter and cheese will be exported from the West Coast this uminti.- N.Z Times.