AUCKLAND DAIRY EXPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 8

AUCKLAND DAIRY EXPORTS.

PREVIOCS FIGURES SURPASSED. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, January 5, ,A good deal of the prosperity of Auckland is duo to the dairying industry. • .In consequence, the shipments from this province are always looked forward to .with considerable interest,' all the more sn j as nearly all the fortnightly shipments taken have shown a very- large increase over, the corresponding periods for last season. Already during tho present season, three shipments of butter have been sent to tlie Homeland, beating the . record shipment for last season, when the steamer Tiirakina took 21,411 boxes. Another one has now to be added to tho list, for tho Corinna, which leaves Onehunga on Saturday, will lake about, 2,1,500 boxes for transhipment to the steamer Rotorua, the vessel leaving Wellington for London on January 12. This cargo is the second largest "exported from the Auckland pro-

vince. The Tainui cargo shipped at the latter end of December holding the record with 24,500 boxes. . 'The total-number of boxes of butter exported for this season up to the present timo (including the shipment by the Kotorua) is' 155,708. This is equal to 8,719,6481b. Computed at 102*. ppr cwt., this represents a valno of ,£397,055 10*. 'J'he value is, of course; much higher than this, a? it is only during the past week tli'o price has been f.o low as 102?. For tho corresponding period of last year, 138,320 boxes were taken, equal to 7,745,020 Jb. Tho increase in favour of the present eeason is about 12J per cent.