TARANAKI’S WEALTH.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 4

TARANAKI’S WEALTH.

PRODUCE SHIPMENTS TO-DAY, APPROXIMATE VALUE £413,500. Produce from Taranaki for the English market, valued at approximately £413,500, will be despatched from the port of New Plymouth to-day by twe steamers, the liner Kumara with a direct consignment and the Corinna with dairy produce for transhipment to Home liners at Wellington. The Kumara carries a large cargo oi meat, wool, butter, cheese, etc., from the works at New Plymouth and Waitara, comprising produce from all parts’ of Taranaki of an estimated value of The complete details of the Kumara’s caxgo have already been published. When the Corinna sails this evening she will take a cargo of dairy produce valued at approximately £172,000, consisting of 20,000 boxes of butter and 4000 crates of cheese. The butter will be transhipped to the Hororata at Wellington, and the cheese to the Opawa. Further shipping space has been allotted to the Producers’ Freezing Company at Moturoa for 23,000 boxes of butter and 12,000 crates of cheese, to be lifted by the Corinna before February 23. The value of this consignment will be in the vicinity of £268,000, making the value of the two shipments by the Corinna approximately £440,000. If tc this figure £340,000 —the value of the two direct shipments of produce so far made from New Plymouth since the New Year—is added, some idea may be gathered of the wealth which passes through Taranaki’s deep-sea port in a period of a few weeks.