COLONIAL DAIRY PRODUCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3012, 8 October 1908, Page 4

COLONIAL DAIRY PRODUCE.

The principal note in Mfessrs Weddell and Go's anr.ual review of the colonial dairy produce trade is the falling off in the supplies of colonial butter imported into the United Kingdom during the paat season. For the Ifcist quarter of a century, except in 1905, there has been a regular and substantial increase in the imports of butter, but in 1908 there-was a' decided check, the decline being 18,143; tons, or 8J per cent. The total quantity imported was 201,134 tons, con* sisting of 165,384 tons of foreign audi £5,750 tons of colonial butter. The reduction occurred altogether in the.-* colonial trade, and amounted to 21,345 tons, whereas the foreign importations showed an increase of 3,202 tons. The colonial deficiency arose chiefly in Australia, whose shortage was 11,627 tons; the Canadian supply showed a deficiency.of 6,358 tons, and New Zealand arrivals were reduce"l by 3,36'.) tons. Adverse seasons in these three countries are given as the cause for the shrinkage in supplies, but in New Zealand tho conversion of butter factories into cheese factories also affected our output of butter.