The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1914. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 April 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1914. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

Levin, in common with a great many other towns and districts, derives its principal sustenance from dairying. .Fortunately the butter making industry is an expanding one, and the prices realised for the dairy produce keep ai a high level. Though a slight set-back was experienced during the early months of the present year, that state of a Hairs was only a passing phase, and with the steady development of new and almost- inexhaustible markets in Xorth and South America it is reasonable to anticipate that during the next few years tile dairying industry of New Zealand will steadily progress. An article in the latest issue of The New Zealand Year Hook gives some astonishing statistics conrc.rning butter and cheese factories and their outputs in recent times. Comparison of iho results shown by the returns collected at the c-ensus of 1.900 with that of 11)01 showed great development, ami a similar development between 1905 and 1.910 is shown by the census of 1911. Not only did the number of factories increase from 2G4 to during the five years, but tlie value of the output in 1910 rose to £1,337,515 over the amount for 1905. . The figures are £2,581 ,- 039 for 1905, and £3,919,184 for 1910. The produce of factorymade butter for 1905 was set down .it 4G2,()f)fi cwt., and for 19.10 at 541,851 cwt., while cheese made increased from 150,0(51 cwt. to 474,1.11 cwt. in the same period. Mv far the greater number of butter and cheese factories are in the Xorth Island, the number having been 215 (out of a total of 3*58) which turned out 4(57,753 cwt. of butter and 315,4(50 cwt. of cheese in the year 191.0, leaving 74,098 cwt. of butter and 158.(151 cwt. of cheese as the output for the South Island. Taranalci is the. provincial district in which the operations are by far the largest, 142,913 cwt. of butter and 197,(590 cwt. of cheese being the result of the factory operations. Wellington factories show for 1910 a total of 111 158 cwt. of butter and 74,508 cwt. of ch<?ese. Otago makes more cheese (127,411 cwt.) m her factories than any other district with Flic -exception of TaranaH, while Auckland, which makes little cheese, heads the list of .provinces for output of butter.