Business Gossip

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 165, 3 October 1927, Page 12

Business Gossip

increased Production in Butter Cheese.—Grading returns for butter s* cheese at the port of Auckland contin** well ahead of those for the correspo** ing period of last year; 157,355 box**®; butter were received into the AucßWa Farmers’ Freezing Company's store* jw the month of September. 1927, comp*£ with 125,383 boxes for the same pen? last year; 10,172 crates of cheese sent in, compared with 8,610 for Sepu* ber last year. In Kauri Gum Circles. —Burinea* kauri gum continues slack, though increased activity is recorded the Northern fields, compared wits w last month or two; 357 tons wet *eat for September. From October 1 ers commenced deducting the levy from all purchases made diggers. Inquiry from tinues and confined mostly to w*. grades;. It is interesting in this rw to note the trend among porters to seek substitutes. >«w returns for May afford an comparison. They are as follow mar, 1:,015,8961b.; kauri. 437,8951 a.. 2,386,7691 b.; lac. c-uCe, seed, buttonsstick, 1.240.5251 b.; sandarac v capul and other varniah gums, It can thus be seen that the - the New Zealand fields la well C<W ■* the list. sssss^^^