BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1915, Page 3

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

SEVENTH SHIPMENT FROM NEW PLYMOUTH. ESTIMATED VALUE £74.007. TARAXAKI EXPORTS TO DATE. The spvpiilli shipment of (his season's produce to be exported from New 'Plymouth will Ijo taken to Wellington by the Corinna on Monday, and will comprise 10,705 boxes of butter and probably 7,500 crates of cheese, for transhipment to the Home liner Hainan. There is some doubt about the actual quantity of cheese to be exported. The agents of the Mamari have notified that they can only take (100(1 craies, but an endeavor is beinp: made to arrange for space for 7,500 crates, ft is expected the butter will bring £?,6Mi7 10s on the Home market, and 7500 crates of cheese should realise ,07,500, making the total value of the shipment .€74,0(17 10s. The following table shows the quantities of butter and cheese exported from Taranaki this season, and the amounts the produce is expected to realise:

FROM NEW PLYMOUTH. Steamer Butter, Cheese, Estimated boxes, crates, value

OUTPUT FROM AUCKLAND. A RECORD SHIPMENT. BUTTER WORTH £212,044. A record shipment of produce was made from Auckland for London by the steamer Eangatira, which commenced the Homeward voyage a few days ago. The cargo carried by the steamer is estimated to be the most valuable ever taken from New Zealand in one vessel. The Auckland portion comprised (17,007 boxes of butter, 3:705 crates of cheese, Co 15 quarters of beef, llOfi carcases of mutton. 244 carcases of lamb, 21 carcases of veal, 1000 bales of wool, and general cargo, the whole being worth over' .€.700,000. " The shipment of butter, the fifth from Auckland this season, is worth approximately ;C212,0-M f.o.b. It is not only the largest sent by one steamer from this port, but it is also larger than the record quantity lifted by two steamers in the last week of November last year. The latter comprised fin,B)2 boxes, of which the Rakaia took .10,07:1 boxes and the lonic 25.16!) boxes. The consignments by the Rangatira represent the accumulation of three weeks' production; those by the Rakaia and the lonic a year ago were the output of four weeks. * _ The export of butter from Auckland since the beginnng of the season on July 1 now amounts tn 202.340 boxes, as compared with 188.233 boxes during the corresponding period of last year". Details of the shipments are as follows:

The increase for the season is 14,116 boxes, or nearly K per cent. Shipmentsto London are greater by 45,(153 than last season, tliis increase being equivalent to over 30 per cent. On the other liand. the shipments to Vancouver have practically ceased. Tlie deliveries of butter for local consumption from the Auckland Fanners' Freezing Company's store show a considerable reduction, evidently owing to tin; high retail price. During the past five months. 11,7U0 boxes have been absorbed by the local market, as compared with 1(i,303 boxes during (lie corresponding period of last year. A portion of the local requirements is, of course, always met by supplies delivered directly from the factories to (lie re.tailers.

The value of the butter exported ibis season is approximately .C(i8(i,307. The value of la-t season's shipments to the beginning of December was approximately £527,0.52. Consignments of cheese amounting to 3505 crates were also made by the Hangalira. This made a. total for the season or 5294 crates, as compared with 4GTB crates last year.

Rotorua .. . 2,071 r a. 7,248 10 Rimutaka . 15,159 3G50 67,656 10 Arawa ... . 11,011 4012 54,586 10 Turakina . . 8,244 6200 53,894 0 Rangatira . 12,045 5008 67,889 10 Orari . 11,402 7577 77,702 0 Totals . . GO,.")*' 27.407 329,067 0 FROM PATEA. Rotorua .. . 1712 2029 14,108 0 Rimutaka . 1083 14,505 63,910 10 Arawa ... 870 0555 41,205 0 Turakina . 7505 .10.020 0 Kaikoura . . 10.04.1 35,157 10 Ranjjatira . Orari 750 15.000 2.(146 fl 75,000 0 Totals . Grand Tl. . !;-).0fi(i 75.50S 18,594 70,001 202,107 0 591.174 0

1015-10. 1014-15. Boxes. Boxes. London 105,00!) 150,010 West of England — 1,290 Vancouver 1,020 31,G0S Australia 3,102 South Africa — 3,000 Pacific Islands 1,010 2,2-1)0 Totals 202,3-40 1SS.233