HIGH BUTTER OUTPUT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1927, Page 8

HIGH BUTTER OUTPUT.

A FORTNIGHT’S PRODUCTION

AUCKLAND DISTRICT INCREASE

The quantity of butter and cheese received into grading store in Auck--1 and for the- oust fortnight continuod. to show a substantial increase over the corresponding -period of last year, sans the “Auckland Herald” of Saturday. Cable advice from Buenos Aires states that Argentina continues to experience drought conditions, with a production of 50 per cent below norma!. London market prices for New Zealand butter and cheese remain unchanged at firm values. Danish butter. now in short supply, and eagerly sought bv Germany and France, as Wei? as England, has touched 196 s Details of the quantities of butter and cheese received into the grading stores of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company, Limited, for the fortnight ended on September 21, show they were in excess of -supplies' for the corresponding period- of last year by 10.171 boxes of butter and 454 crates of cheese. Reduced to_terms of butterfat, this represents 504.3321b—w0rth, approximately. at ruling values, £3S 000. The fortnight’s receipts into store represent an increase of approximately 17 per cent in butter and 11 per cent in cheese, while advances of 29 per cent in butter and 21. per cent, in cheese mark the total production for the new season to date, compared with that for the same period of last' year. . Details' of receipts into grading store for the past- fortnight, with the figures for the* corresponding period of 1926 in parentheses, are as follow: Boxes of butter, 70,063. equal to 3.269,6071 b butter-fat (59.892. equal to 2,7.94,9601 b fat); crates of cheese. 4580. equal to 299,461 lb fat (4126. equal to 269,7771 b fat). Deliveries for the fortnight were: Boxes of butter. 89.974 (73,116) ; crates of cheese. 3298 (4137). Receipts into store since July 1 are: Boxes of blitter. 184.212 ‘(142.907); crates of dhee.se. 9582 (7903). Stocks on hand are as follow: Boxes of butter, 41,732 (22,842); crates of cheese. 5940 (2610). Although the increase in production over last year is not as great as it was a few weeks ago, it is yet substantial, and when it is borne in mind that last vear itself was a period of record production, the position must be regarded a.s eminently satisfactory. The prediction that the present sound values for dairy produce will, in view of waning production in the Northern Hemisphere, he increased, is given additional weight by a cablegram received by Air. F. S. Battley, Vice-Consul for Argentina, from the Argentine Dairy Association, Buenos Aires. Dairying prospects in South America, it stated, were unfavourable, since the drought was unbroken and production was 50 per cent below normal.