THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1920, Page 4

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

NEW SEASON'S PRODUCE. LARGER QUANTITY IN STORE. Shipments of Taranaki dairy produce from New Plymouth this month and in January, for which space is in sight, will dear'about 34,000 boxes or butter t.nd 10,(100 crates of cheese. 1 Cargoes will be consigned to Wellington at intervals for transhipment to various vessels, including the lonic, Aimagh, and Opawa. A shipment of cheese was recently despatched by the Corinna for transhipment to the Port Surrey, and the Corinna is to return to New 'Plymouth di-cct to load 11,100 boxes of butter for the lonic, and 5000 orates of cheese for the Armagh, in. addition to a balance of the allotmtnt for the Surrey. A comparative statement of the quantities of produo* in store at the Taraimki Producers"-. Freezing Works at Motnroa, show -that on December 13, there were in hand 41j700. boxes of butt/r (compared with. 10,400 boxes at the. same time last year). Cheese stored amounted to 44,2*10 crates, compared i with 2(1,400 in 1019. The figures arc of iiltle use. however, as n criterion of the rise or fall in production, and in this instance cannot be taken as a definite indication of an increase, as last year the affairs in the industry were on an entirely different footing and there wa& not so much butter held in store.

FALL OF ENGLISH PRICES.

THE POSITION EXPLAINED,

A, cable from London in yesterday morning's paper reported that at the re-sales of new season's output on the Home market, New Zealand' cheese was quoted at 140s e.i.f. In conversation with a Daily News' representative last night, Mr. A. .T. Morton, president of the National Dairy Association, stated that this fall was not unexpected. As a matter of fact a somewhat --imilar quotation was aanonncid a few weeks ago, though the price at the beginning of the season wit* l!)0s. The real standard price of New Zealand rheese for the present season however, tannot be accurately panged until the arrival in England in Janu-, nry of the ii"\v season's cheese, mo;t of which is uow Homeward bound. The ei;bh- referred to above also stated tint English and Irish butter was slcadMy declining, and is now offered at :170s to 300s as compared with 500s a fc.v weeks ago. Mr. Morton stated that the cost of putting Irish butter upon the English market was •till far in advance of that for New Zealand produce, though he had no accurate knowledge of Irish working expensen as compared with our own.