CHEESE AND BUTTER OUTPUT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 8

CHEESE AND BUTTER OUTPUT.

' -■H'GTJRES FOR THE :■' ■ Dairy report, wnicnis m 'process of compilation, will show some interesting facts by figures relating to the dairy produce exports. of Now Zealand. 1 luo exports from the country v as a whole since April, 1904; aro.iv: follow:—: ■ : ' Year. 'Butter.:, Cheese. ■ . .Ending. Cwt.... Cwt. ■■■■ ; April, 1904 ;.. 311,774 77 356 ■"April, 1905 ..i, 317,254 ■ 81997 April, 1906 ... 298,969 111 733 April, 1907 ... 304,633 176 766 ' Apri, 1908 ... 256,489 285 386 April;l9o9- ...292,856 329,945 tho whole- of New Zealand's output of-butter and cheese is absorbed by tho United Kingdom, the shipments to South being v,ry :; am a ll in, _Tho imports of butter into tho United Kingdom from South America, Australia, and New Zea and- ast year, and the year before amounted to tho following;— ' ■■: .'/' V 1907-8. . 1908-9. ; . ■ -' ■ ';.-: Tons.. T ons , . Argentine ... 2,851 3 500 Australia ... 26,841 . 14 620 : New Zealand 13,537 . 13J800 The New Zealand exports are-not yet complete, as- heavy shipments have been made since tho closing of tho above returns, and exports are still going forward, although in reduced volume. ..'■■■•■ 6 , A^ has practically ceased exporting to Soutlr Africa, and sho is now to be reckoned with in tho London market. Unning to the output of the Wellington province, the following figures will be found to be interesting:— : •. *<!?>■• Butter. Cheese. . ; Ending. Uwt. -, Uwt. ■fHi' 1904 ...; 85,968 : 18,745 ■ 4H'.1905 - 84,607 29,088 l Pr -'lnl 7 - 71 ' 314 32 891 ■ Apr;, 1908 ... 55,586 47,415 ' April, 1909 ... 55,312 " 52'832 Patea is tha biggest exporter of cheese, and tho manufacture of this commodity is likoly. to greatly increase, there being many dairy authorities holding tho view that it pays better to make cheeso than butter iateas exports of cheese, as compared with low-I' PaSt fOUr years « ro as fol_ -l T ear. Butter. Cheese Ending. . Cwt. Cwt Apr;, 1906 50,954 18,648 April,. 1907 :.. -60,269 58 268 : Apr;, 1908 ... 25,341 102 826 Apnl, 1909 .... 39,613 ■" 109|148 Tn?i° last ,, stea , nl< =r to, leave Wellington for London, the Arawa,' (>x)k 9802 cases of cheese and 456 cases of butter/and of tho cheeso Patea exported 3274,ca B 'es and Bluff M/i cases, Wellington following with 1543 cases, and New v Plymouth, 1273 cases :