EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1922, Page 5

EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

BUTTER SHIPMENTS INCREASE. £5,060,000 IN ONE YEAR. TARANAKI’S IMPORTANT PART. The following figures show the deta of the export of New Zealand butter a| cheese from each district for the twe months ended November, 1921 and 1 The increase in the quantity of but shipped was remarkable. While the to export for the twelve months ended vember 30, 1920, was valued at £2,908, the export for the similar period in t was valued at £9,094,739, an increaee over seven millions. The figures fro Auckland are remarkable, £5,301,8 against £1,860,731. New Plymouth a shows a very substantial advance, £l,lO 814, against £247,874. It must be rente bered, however, that the purchases me by the Imperial Supplies Department <h ing the war period disrupted shipmei from various Dominion ports. ' ./■

BIG CONTRIBUTING FACTOR. FACTORIES MAKE BUTTER INSTEI OF CHEESE. A well-known authority on these matte on being approached by a Wellington Tim representative to explain the huge sdvan in the volume and the value of the 0 minion’s butter exports in 1921 as tot pared with 1920, stated that it was d to the fact that so many of the factor had turned over from cheese to bwttt Normally, England imported about 220,0 tons of butter, but at the close of the w her imports had fallen to 70,000 to 80,0 tons. In view of this’shortage of 120,8 tons a year, the dairy factories were a vised to produce butter rather than dbM and a large number of them did so. - The large amount of army butter be by the British Government under the eos mandeer had, however, been overtooki he continued, and when this butter w thrown on the market the result was t recent slump in butter prices. But Imperial Supply butter had now been >U and he did not think the slump would long continued.

12 months end* November 80, 1921 I»2< £ £ Auckland .... .. . . 5,301,803 1,860," Tauranga .... .... 126,640 — Toko m ar u Bay and Gisborne 98,297 21,1 New Plymouth .... 1,193,814 247,4 Patea .... 521,043 52,« Wanganui .... 922,637 287,5 Wellington .... 413,403 118,1 Napier 255,496 72,226 <7,1 Wairau 20,4 Nelson ...... .... 143,958 33,1 Westport .... 50,694 14,1 Greymouth . a 59,561 20,1 Hokitika .... 37,442 7,1 Lyttelton .... .... 337,983 102,1 Timaru 99,009 36, J Oam aru .. 55,617 Dunedin .... .... 178,319 35, ( Invercargill ,. .... 126,797 2,< ■i i —'—, » Totals 9,994,730 CHEESE. 2,908,0 Auckland .... 1,460,469 1,181,3 New Plymouth .... 1,105,931 1.128,5 Patea .... 1,473,812 1,828,8 Wanganui ... .... 582,302 473,7 Wellington .... 991,977 711,2 Napier 343,752 271,8 Wairau 90,521 58,4 Nelson 56,736 37,1 Westport — Hokitika .... 36,896 17,7 Lyttelton .... .... 245,790 121,5 Timaru ..... 87,590 67,< Dunedin .... ...... 335,765 233," Invercargill .... 880,076 568,9 — -- — Totals .... 7,691,617 6,702,1