BIG BUTTER CARGO
Auckland Star Sets Record (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oat. 10. The vessel Auckland Star will sail from Auckland tomorrow with the biggest single cargo of dairy produce that has ever left New Zealand and one that probably sets a world record. The chief reason for the record cargo is that the Dairy Board is doing everything possible to send the maximum quantities of butter to the British market as• early as possible in the New Zealand season in view of - the current butter shortage in Britain.
The ship is due ait London, her first port of discharge, about November 10 and will later discharge ait Liverpool, Glasgow and Hamburg. The 12,000-ton vessel, one of the largest on the New Zealand - United Kingdom run, will carry 264,000 cartons of butter, 11,000 crates and 44,000 cartons of cheese, 15,000 bags of casein, and 40,000 bags of milk powders. The butter weighs 6600 tons, the cheese 1750 tons, the casein 470 tons, and the milk powders 1350 tons, a total in freight tons of 10,170. The value of the cargo is about £2.75 million.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30259, 11 October 1963, Page 3
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