BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1920, Page 4

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

EXPORTS FROM TARANAKI. •■ MORE CHEESE THAN BTJtf IR. ' Some interesting figures dealing with the exports of butter and cheese fwtn New Plymouth for the 1919-20 sjeasoh dp to now were supplied to a' Daily News representative yesterday ,by the' • Tattnaki iProdtooors': Freezing Work*. Company. , This season's produce is being stored at Eltliam and Moturoa, while the lflip*, 19 season's produce was stored at. Moturoa, Smart Road, Eltbam, and tfaponga. Tlie:'e are now »6,950 boxes oTbutte* In store, as compared with 29,919 bok.«» at this time last year, while there »Ye 35,872 crates of cheese In stor*. M compared with 96,053 crates last year. There has only been one shipment of butter this season, 18,000'box«S having been shipped by tho Paparoa on Novem. ber 22 last year. The shipments of cheese total flS,4sp, and'are as follows: C»tl«. Sep. 25, 1919, by s.s. Corinthio .. 3,800 Nov 18,1919, by s.s. Westmorland , 10,000 Nov. 29, 1919, bv s.s. lonic ....v I«J,WO Dee, 31, 1919, by s.s. Mahana ~ 27,(W0 Feb. 13,1920, by s.s. Wftimana .. - B,oso Total 63(4*0 An interesting feature of tho IrldtiStty is that more factories are now turning their attention to cheese in preference to butter. Compared with prt'WAr seasons the manufacture of butter |» on the decrease, while cheese U increasing in quantity, .. , v v,