NEW RECORDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 26

NEW RECORDS.

DAIRY PRODUCTION. BUTTER UP BY 5410 TONS. CHEESE SHOWS DECLINE. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. All previous production records are eclipsed by the latest figures for the season relating to the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company's activities, supplied by Mr. C. J. Parlane, general manager, in a statement this morning. The increase in butter production for the sea'-on amounts to no less than 0410 tons. Following are details of the company's output for the 1935-30 season, thos%e for the previous season being in parentheses: Better. 47,490 tons (42,089)*; chee.se, 7020 (9019j ; casein, 1240 (931); milk powders, 0018 (*>3-15); condensed milk, 19.13 (1800). Total, 04,330 (59,244). At the company's 10 butter factories the outputs range from 1000 tons at Ngongotalia to 0385 tons at W aharoa. while at the 1? cheese factories the quantities vary from 288 tons at Rukuhia to. 1029 tons at Manawaru. The cheese production is lower as a result of the Waharoa milk powder factory making powder during the whole of the season, and to other cheese factories manufacturing casein.

The butter output at Waharoa increased by -1 per cent, and at all other factories " gratifying increases were recorded.

An increased demand from overseas markets resulted in a substantially greater output of casein, and the demand still obtains.

Mr. Parlane added tliat substantial sales of the current season's manufacture already have been made at satisfactory prices. The greater output of milk powder was being quickly absorbed by overseas markets. Although price competition from English and Scottish buyers tended to become acute, the company's evaporated milk was being well established in the United Kingdom and tlve East.