THE BUTTER IN STORE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 2 June 1911, Page 8

THE BUTTER IN STORE.

The quantity of butter held-in'the'grad-ing stores tit tho ports.'of the Dominion is nearly 0(100 boxes less than was in the stores at this time hist year. The details are given belovr:— May 31. May 31. 1311. lniO. Auckland ' 13,150 - 5»,7-12 Now Plymouth ...... 0,710 8,257 Patea '...: :,. 1.319 ' 3,1-15 Wellington' 9,:j(Jfi 3.=>,7-15 - Lyttelton .„....;..;..... 366 1,125 Duntdin ....„....;.. " -2,0-11 V.Xti ■'■ ; 32,422 1i;273' It-is worth noiirig that the-."butter in store".means the butt«r in the grading stores.' The figures are sent to the Department of Agriculture, where the above set of figures was compiled. The table does not contain the figures relating to the butter held by private firms. The head of a Wellington butter business says that at least another 15,000 boxes are in ccol. stores, which would bring the.-.total up to-about 47,500 boxes. On that point the Department of. Agriculture can give no information. . ■A TAEANAKI OPINION. (By Telegraph.—Speciai Correspondent.} Hawera, June 1.In view of the alleged expected butter shortage during the .winter months in the Dominion, nearly all dual factories have discontinued-cheese manufacture for but-ter-making, and intend to keep at the latter till September. The whole of these outputs will be for New .Zealand consumption. Speaking to a Dominion representative to-dav on the subject, a prominent man connected with one of the biggest -dairying concerns in laranakt stated that his company had just been offered a fraction over one shilling per Dound for its present local: outpu., but the informant was disinclined to behove that tho retail price'of butter this winter would roach Is. fid..per pound.