DAIRY INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 141, 16 June 1928, Page 4

DAIRY INDUSTRY.

LONDON MARKET GOOD. BENEFIT TO FARMERS. There will be a substantial benefit to Auckland farmers in the high prices ruling in London at the. present time foi dairy produce, lor quite a snlwtantial quantity from the Auckland province has arriv.d and is available lor sale at about, this time. j • Among vrjspols winch !kivp arrived in London recently are the following. together wit 11 tii3 quantities taken irom this port: —J'iiiko. ll#>o boxes of butter; Port, Napier, 40.273 boxes; J'ovt > ictor, 13 773 boxes - Westmoreland. 22.010 boxes; Remuera, 28.184 boxes. The Piako also earried 1M crates of cheese and the Kemupra 'JW crate*. These vessels alone account for 10a, boxes of butter and 4407 crates of cheese, every pound <>t which should realise a ftatistactory figure and help to make the farmer forget the unfortunate dry spell which curtailed production in midtsummer. How much more satisfactory aie existing values than those ruling a.t thi > time last year are shown in the following talbles, which also carry the comparison back to 192(3. The top prices of New Zealand, Danish and Australian butter and of New Zealand cheese at this date in recent years are given: butter. 192j 11*26 1027 1928 per per per per ewt. cwt. t'Wt. ewt. New Zealand .. 1»0/ 174/ IHK/ 174/ Danish l'J2/ 180/ 108/ Australian ... 174/ 174/ 100/ lb4/ CHEESE. New Zealand .. 98/ 06/ 80/ 102/ Among notaibie points revealed 111 the aibove tablea is the fact that New Zealand has improved its position relatively with Danish butter and still more so 111 reg.i.u to Australian.