DAIRY INDUSTRY.
A SPLENDID SEASON.
(Per Press Association.) Now Plymouth, last night. Whilst tbo amount of butler exported fiom Now Plymouth for the year ending March 81st showed an increase on the previous year there was a slight deorease in the quantity of faatory butter. Tbo total boxes graded wbs 171,566, of which there was shipped to tho United Kingdom 150,815 boxes of faotory, 9,081 boxos of i separator, and BSB milled, the remainder I being shipped to Australia, Suva, and I South Afrioa. There was stored at the I end of tho year awaiting shipment a total I value of graded, overaged at ten onoeighth, approximately £405,816. Tbo grading averages very high, onty I'B2 per ornt of faotory not boiog first grade. Twelve per oont of separator and 27 per oent of milled was undor tho first grades. Five hundred and fifty tons of ucsalted faotory and 15 separator was shipped to tho Unitod King- [ dom. Cheese Bhows a great increase, 9,212 oases being shipped, valued at about £BO,OOO, oompared with 5,701 oases for tho provious year. looludiDg Patea it is i anticipated that tho total export of butter and ohooeo from Taranaki is valued at about three-quarters of a million pounds, j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1730, 23 April 1906, Page 3
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