DAIRY PAY-OUT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 December 1927, Page 4

DAIRY PAY-OUT

THE GRAND TOTAL. £290,000 FOR SOUTH TARANAKI. On nxonday “Thp Hawera Star” was able to advise its readers of amounts, ot the disbursements to be madei to the suppliers of the principal dairy factories in South Taranaki on the following day. the twentieth of the month. At that time it was not passible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the total amount which would be paid out in this district, though it was, clear that it would reach the proximity of •a quarter of a million sterling. ~ Today. however, the figures have been obtained from an authoritative source, and they show that the grand total is much in excess of that estimate.

The farmers of South Taranaki —within the area bounded by Patea, Eltham and Opunake—yesterday received payments for their dairy produce totalling £290,000. Tlie above is the total in round figures. As a fact it exceeded that amount somewhat, but tine approximate total of £290,000 is sufficient to indicate the great influx of money there has been to tlie district as a result of the December pay-out.

HEAVY SHIPMENTS. DAIRY PRODUCE FOR. OVERSEAS. A .remarkable feature of the current export season i<s the very large shipments of butter and cheese which have been going overseas since early in October (says the “Dominion.” During the last four months 1,230,000 boxes of butter, equal to. Over 31,000 tons, and 340,000 crates of cheese, equal to 10,000 tons, have been shipped for oversea torts, apart from heavy shipments to Australia and Vanocuver. The most valuable cargo of dairy produce that has ever left the Dominion arrived in London ,six days ago in the Rotorua. It comprised 122,910 boxes of butter and 24,351 crates of cheese, and was estimated to be worth, when it left New Zealand early in November, £676.000. The Rotorua’s cargo was the largest shipment of dairy iproduqe from New Zealand, and the freight bill was approximately £36,000. The dairy export season began this year at the end of August, during which month 23,208 boxes of butter were shipped to London- Subsequent monthly loadings have been:

Tile September shipments included 2122 boxes of butter for West of England ports, and the lOctober shipments 33,596 boxes of butter for Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Kia Ora, which sailed in November, took 39,803 boxes of butter for Halifax, 3000 for Panama and 26,143 boxes of butter and 11,332 crates for West of England ports. The December sailings up to Monday. when the Turakina left WellingfAn lmi'P *

lira.Kill jt o <, * *7O 00,*«7u Included in tin? above shipments were 50,716 lx>xes of butter for Halifax, 17,139 boxes for New York in tlie Port Harclv. and 35,519 boxes of butter and 23,166 erates of cheese in tlie Turakina for West of England ports. Further allotments to the end of the month are:

These loadings will bring the total shipments for December up to 401.3136 boxes of butter and 138,553 crates of cheese, and the total for the season from August to December 31 up to 1,240.756 boxes of batter and 39,852 crates of cheese.

Butter Cheese boxes. cratets. September 127,425 15,309 October 232,368 60,156 November 456,359 125,834

ton, nave nee n: — Butter. Cheese Remuera 49,907 11,713 Port Hardy .. 109,890 14,337 37.793 35.293

Butter. Cheese. Tongariro, Deo. 21 . .. 45,000 c,005 M alii a. Dec. 22 .. 38,806 26,000 Tonic. Dec. 30 Port- Fiemant’ie . 60,000 22,570 Dec. 31 .. 60.000 22,629