INCREASED PRODUCTION
BUTTER AND CHEESE DOMINION FIGURES Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. The Department of Agriculture reports that the salted butter graded during May totalled 3,195 tons and the unsalted butter 55 tons as compared with 2,314 tons of butter and no cheese graded during the corresponding month in 1926. A big increase is registered for the 10 months ended May, the figures being 67,458 tons of salted and 2,248 tons of unsalted graded as compared with 58,655 tons and 2,818 tons for the same period. An increase of 13 per cent, is registered in the cheese graded last month, the figures being 2,549 tons of white and 1,499 tons of coloured as compared with 2,454 tons and 1,599 tons respectively for May, 1926. The figures for the 10 months to May, 1927, were 49,545 tons of white and 25,020 tons of coloured as compared with 46,258 tons and tons respectively a year ago Converted into the butter-fat equivalent these figures show an increase of 9.69 per cent, in the butter-fat production for the 10 months just ended as compared with previous corresponding period. The blitter stocks held in various grading ports on May 31, 1927, were 8,710 tons of butter and 9,431 tons of cheese as compared with 9,029 tons and 10,862 tons respectively for the corresponding period of 1926.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 66, 9 June 1927, Page 9
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