BUTTER PRODUCTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1925, Page 12

BUTTER PRODUCTION.

AUCKLAND AND PROVINCE j FIGURES. STROM; POSITION TO DATE. I The Auckland province has reasonable j prospects of breaking its record butter! output, established in the season ending) .lune 3D. 1923, when a total of 1,4."Vi),817 I boxes was graded. There has been a \ consistent increase over the correspond- | ing periods of previous year.s at the j regular fortnightly tallies and the last, , representing the figures for the first ' two weeks of January, was 110,770, innking a grand total as from July 1 of OD.-i.347 boxes. With live and a half j months to go 4(14,470 boxes are required | to reach the record, nnd, even though i lie nio.st prolific months are past, there: is every probability of the total being j eclipsed. | For the first two weeks of January lasf year SI. 1108 boxes were graded, so ! that the present month's figures reprc- | sent an increase of 20.111 boxes. The' period showed a fulling off. however, in j comparison with the first two weeks of Decern bcr. when the return was 110,821' The figures for the past three sea- • sons (July I to June 301 arc as foi- : lows:- -1022. 1,1215..")34 boxes; 1023, 1.1.V.1.517 boxes: 1024. 1.44."i.31V> boxes. The output (ill the present date was 581.708 boxes in the 1022-23 season, and 8.0J134 boxes in 1023-24. It will be seen. t.licrcforc. that this season is. 110,640 boxes ahead of the record year; at the .-nine period of the year.; Whether this excess can be maintained depends upon the weather, and n dryj period would immediately be reflected i in ii falling oil. I The amount of cheese received at the | grading stores during the season shows n decrease, and il wa.s particularly | heavy during the first two weeks of the j month. Only 8768 crates were received j as compared with 13.814 in the corresponding period of January. 1024. The | outpui for the season up to January j 14 is 1ip..".50, against 03.813 crates for a ] similar period last season, a decrease of _4.__ B. ANOTHER DROP IN PRICE. HESU/r OF HEAVY SITPLIF.K.' The advance in the price of New Zealand utter on tiie lxindon market to 170/ per ewt did not last long, as it was only caused by dense fogs having delayed arrivals and deliveries. During the week the price dropped to 108/ per ewt. and now a furlher decline is record, ~1. Messrs. A. 11. Turnbull and Co. report : '"We are in receipt of a cable from Messrs. W. Weiidel and Co.. Ltd.. dated London, January lii, reading: 'Danish butter, 198/; New Zealand, fust grade unsiilted butter, 104/ to 168/: j New Zealand, first grade salted butter, lot!/ to 160/ Market weak. New Zea-| land first grade cheese, white nnd coloured. 02/ to 04/. Market slow.'" The London office of Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co. advise that butter was between 1.".4/ ami 158/ per ewt. with nn uncertain tendency. Cheese was quoted at 01/ to 00/ per cwf. The decline in price is due to large supplies from Australia and New Zealand arriving on ".he London market close together. Lower prices, however, always increase the consumption, and thus help to relieve a glut on the London market.