DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5080, 26 January 1927, Page 2

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

DOMINION EXPORTS. AUCKLAND’S' BIG SHARE. Space allotments for 477,310 boxes of butter and 231,4'81 crates of che<es e have been made, by the Dairy Produce Board on 19 steamers scheduled to leave’ New Zealand ports between next Saturday, January 29, and March 15, and to arrive in the United Kingdom between March 6 and April 26. Auckland produce included in the allotments totals 279,981 boxes of butter and 27,583 crates df cheese. Auckland’s position as the premier butter-producing province of the Dominion is again emphasised by an examination of the details of the allotments. Of the Dominion total more than half, or 58 per cent., df the butter will be shipped through the port Auckland. In addition to providing such a substantial portion of the export butter the. factories in the province also supply the large local ma'ket occasioned by thq fact that within the bounds df the province there is one-third of the Dominion’s population.

In the production of cheese Auckland does not occupy such a high position, the quota of the province in allotments under review being only 12 per cent, of the Dominion total. All the dairy produce is being loaded for the United Kingdom with the exception of 13,650 boxes of butter, which the Devon will take to Halifax and New York, and 10,000 boxes of butter which the Port Campbell will land at New York. West Coast ports in the United Kingdom are to receive the whole of the shipment by the Cambridge and portion of that of the devon.