BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1915, Page 6

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

FIFTH SHIPMENT TOMORROW. ESTIMATED VALUE £67,889. TARANAKI EXPORTS TO DATE. The fifth shipment of the new season's produce to be exported from New Plymouth will be taken to Wellington by the Corinna to-morrow, and will comprise 12,04!) boxes of butter and f>9oß crates of cheese for transhipment to the Rangatira. The shipment is somewhat larger than was estimated early last week, and will probably prove to be the most valuable consignment dispatched from New Plymouth this season. It is expected that the butter will bring £44,257 10s on the Home market and the cheese £23,632, a total of £07,889 10s. The most valuable shipment sent from New Plymouth prior to this was that taken by the Rimutaka, which is expected to realise £07,056 10s. The following table shows the quantities of butter and cheese exported from Taranaki this season and the amounts the shipments are expected to realise:— FROM NEW PLYMOUTH. Steamer Butter, Cheese, Estimated boxes, crates, value £ s. Rotorua ... 2,071 7,248 10 Rimutaka . 15,159 3650 67,656 10 Ara war.... 11,011 4012 54,586 10 Turakina .. 8.244 6260 53,894 0 Rangatira . 12,045 5908 67,889 10 Totals .. 40,130 19,830 251,275 0 FROM PATEA. Rotorua ... 1712 2029 14,108 0 Rimutaka . 1683 14,505 63,910 10 Arawa .... 870 9555 41,265 0 Turakina .. Figures not yet available Totals .. 4265 26,089 119,283 10 Grand tl. 53,395 40,011 370,559 0 BUTTER FROM AUCKLAND. THE TURAKINA'S SHIPMENT. '£472,000 WORTH SENT TO DATE. The fourth shipment from Auckland to London of the new season's butter was dispatched by the Turakina, which sailed from Auckland on Thursday for London direct. It consisted of 45,189 boxes, of an estimated value—on a basis of Is 4d per lb—of £168,705. The shipments of butter from Auckland this season now represent 130,692 boxes, the market value of which is estimated to be £472,306. The Otald, which left in September, and which is now due in London, carried the first shipment of Auckland butter, contained in 20,815 boxes, and valued —on a basis of Is 3d per lb—at £72,852. Early in October the Rimutaka took away 28,103 boxes, which, at Is 3*d per lb, was worth £101,856. On October 18, the Arawa sailed with 34,525 boxes, valued—at Is 4d per lb—at £128,893. During the same period last year, the shipments sent away represented 75,174 boxes. The shipments this year and the corresponding ones last year may be (shown thus:—

1915-18. 1914-15. Boxes. Boxes. Otaki 20,815 5,081 Rimutaka 28,183 25,026 Arawa .......... 34,525 25,002 Turakina ...v.... 45,189 20,065 Totals ........ 128,692 75,174 Up to the present, the butter shipped from Auckland to London this season exceeds the export for the same period of last year by 53,518 boxes, but, owing to the higher rates now ruling for this commodity, the differences in values are considerably beyond this proportion. The average price obtained la9t season was Is per lb, as against Is 3d and la 4d this year, so that the value of the respective shipments is about as follows: i 1915-16. 1914-15. £ £ Otaki 75.852 14,226 Rimutaka 101,856 70,072 Arawa 128,893 70,00") Turakina 108,705 00,864 Totals £472,300 £215,167 The Turakina also loaded 235" crates of cheese, valued at 9787, and 6400 quarters of beef and sundries, worth about £18,500 f.o.b. This makes a total of 4780 crates of cheese sent away this season. The vessel was full of produce when she east off from the wharf to commence her voyage to London—so full that she could not take the 2500 crates for which,space had been booked, and 113 crates were left behind. The Rangatira will be the next vessel to load produce in Auckland. She is due about November 23, and will take away about 45,000 boxes of butter and 3500 crates of cheese.