N.Z. PRODUCTION FIGURES

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 17

N.Z. PRODUCTION FIGURES

butterfat UP 11 PER CENT. (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. May 7. Butterfat processed dairy ,Xi?L ies during . March totalled 39.000,0001 b—an increase of IL2 per cent, over the figure of 35.000.00010 for March, 1955. and 3 per adova the five-year average, states the New Zealand Dairy Board. For the nine months to the end of March butterfat processed totalled 421.500.0001 b. an increase of 4 per cent, over last years figure for the: period, and 4.8 P er . cen t V record-five-year average. In the record breaking 1952-53 season the total for the nine-month period was 424,200,0001 b. for Production of creamery butter tor the nine months to the end of March was 181,452 tons, an increase of 6 pel cent, over last year’s figure of 171,163 tC> Cheese production, at 85,608 tons, was 9 per cent, below the figure of 94 055 tons for the corresponding period of last year. Other Dairy Products For the eight months to the end of February production of condensed and powdered products was as follows (last year’s figures in parenthesis):— Condensed and powdered whole milk 11 853 tons (13,364): buttermilk powder. 10,119 tons (8197); casein, 19.896 tons (8956). . For the nine-month period production was at record levels in North; land, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki ano Nelson, Marlborough and Westland. The level of production in these areas and in South Auckland more than offset the drops which occurred m Hawk’s Bay-Gisborne, Canterbury, Otago and Southland, and, to a lessei extent, in Wellington. Production conditions continue to be very good in Northland, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki. Pasture growth is generally good and the outlook for winter feed supplies bright. McLeod Bros.— An unchanged interim ordinary dividend of 8d (3 1-3 per cent.) iis payable on May 8, ex May Is (