The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913. BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 October 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913. BUTTER AND CHEESE.

The »'reai and growing importance to New Zealand of her dairying industries its the subject of frequent references, but we doubt if anything can show the matter clearer or more succinctly than does a table of ligures set out in the Official Year Book for the year now current. From this we note that in the twenty years from 1892 to Ml, the total volume m" the butter trade expanded sixfold, and lhat of cheese over tenfold. In 1.892 there -.-.-ere 33,930 cwt of butter exported and 150,000 cwl. of cheese: in 1911 the butter export totalled 302,381 cwf and the cheese 135,(>Ki. Of the butter exported in 1911, 28:},505 cwt of the value of £1,471 ,I(>7, went to Hie l*nited Kingdom: '>9 cwt, value £21(i, to New South Wales' 837 cwt, value £4,801 i, to Fiji: 5,379 cwt, value ,£28,435, to .British South Africa: 1,(>4- r > cwt value £11,255, to the South Sea Islands: 9,224 cwt, value £52,'159, to (.'aiiada: and 1,757 cwt. value £8 058, to Fnited States. Of the cheese exported, -135,010 cwt, value £1, 187,237, were sent to the I T llited Kingdom: 505 cwt, value £1,739, to New South Wales, 70 cwt, value .£4-1-5, to Victoria: 135 cwt, value £430, to Fiji: 78 cwt, value £272, to Bengal": 80 cwt, value ,£312, to .Bombay: 2,572 cwt, value £7,202, to British South Africa: and 19 cwt, value £140, to Portuguese Fast Africa.