BUTTER EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CC, Issue 5, 6 January 1921, Page 8

BUTTER EXPORTS

The quantity of butter received in the Auckland Farmers'. Freezing Company's stores for the last six months was 413,770 boxes, as compared with 235,349 boxes received during the season.of July to December in 1919. The butter received during the month of December, 1920, amounted to 130,4.70 boxes, an-in-crease of 50.666 boxes on the quantity received during December, 1919. During the. past six months 91,320 crates of cheese were received, as compared with 69,236 crates during the corresponding period of last season. For December, the total was 28,987 orates, an increase of 3643 crates on the record for December, 1919.' The shipments during December totalled 186,500 boxes of butter and 13,000 crates •of cheese, .114,800 boxes of butter and 74,766 crates of cheese remaining in the stores.

"We have been advised of the purchase of New Zealand butter by. the British Ministry of Food at 280s per ewt, f.0.b.,". wrote a. Canadian correspondent'on 12th November, to a Wellington firm, "That is a good price for the producers: The Minis-try is buying butter in Canada on the open, market through one Montreal firm. They say they are willing to pay the same price for Canadian butter, as the New Zealand cost's, c.i.f., or about <s97s- per cwt, but the loss on. exchange will not permit their agent, to pay more than Is lid per pound in Canada.

"This exchange matter is playing the very mischief with our export trade, and owing to the high value of the American dollar Danish butter can now be shipped to the United States, several million pounds having already come in." .