DAIRY EXPORT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 12

DAIRY EXPORT

SOUTH ISLAND TRADE Operations of the South Island Dairy Association for the year ended 30th April show satisfactory trading and a credit balance of £484 proposed to be transferred to Capital Fund Account. Exports from southern ports for tlie year were as follow:— Butter. Cheese. Boxes. Crates. Lyttelton 62,708 17,303 Thnaru 12,314 10,002 Dunedin ........ 42,749 34,951 Bluff 23,049 164,893 Totals v .. 148,818. 227,149 Last year.- shipments of dairy produce from the South Island were more by 33,670 boxes butter and 43,915 crates cheese. Production figures based on quantities.graded for export were 139,010 boxes butter, and 197,157 crates cheese, showing decreases on the grading figures for I!W>7 of 38,315 boxes butter .and 483j crates cheese. The reduced output in the South Island is attributed to late spring followed' by exceptionally dry summer. Reference is made in the report to theincreasing efforts made by farmers to improve their herds and in the increase by the number of herds on test for yield Credit is given to the ofheers ot the Dairy Division for the continued improvc-r.ie-it made in quality, and stress is laid upon a compulsory system for the grad; in- of milk having reefrence to luithei iufm-Gvcmcnt in the quality of cheese. In reviewing prices the directors state "a stable market, which is the desideratum of every dairy producer m the^country, appears to be as far off irom attain'"iied.n^'m shipment of calves *as prices. Returns to farmers worked out that efforts to induce the Railway Department to reduce-rates for tanshfpments of dairy produce for export had been successful.