THE BUTTER SUPPLIES.
SHIPMENTS TO-DAY. TARANAKI HOLDING BACK. The s.s. Mamari to-day takes from the port of' Wellington for Britain:— . Cheese, Butter, cases, boxes. /From New Plymouth ... 1688 . — / (From Patea ... ■ ... . 2048 : . ■ 6 From .Wellington"'• ... '560 .;• ' 94-. Snfiall quantities might'possibly arrive from Auckland and the South early this, morning. V "he interesting tiling that stands out in. these figures is tlio fact.rthat -Taranaki, which', holds many , thousands of boxes of butter in "O/d store,, is not sending: it .out of-tho Dominion, ; a ; circumsianci '■ which}.. on- the ono' hand, -sjiows ,that the. holders realise the superiority of the local market, i and, on the' other hand, for the consumers in £iew Zealand adequate supplies at fair prices for the winter. Last, year, in April the exports from New ' Zealand consisted of:— .. ■' ■■ f : ; Cheese, Butter, cases. boxes. - ... . ;-.'■ : 19,162 29,007 These quantities, spread -over, 6ay, fou:'' shipments, give a quantity per ship that ii . overwhelming y greater than the little quan tity. that will float out of the-harbour to ; ' <la J'- ■ '~ ■ .... / ;■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 179, 24 April 1908, Page 2
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167THE BUTTER SUPPLIES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 179, 24 April 1908, Page 2
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