EXPORT OF PRODUCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 303, 7 December 1931, Page 7

EXPORT OF PRODUCE

LARGE CARGO ON PORT FAIBY BUTTER, CHEESE AND WOOL. Heavy consignments of New Zealand butter and cheese were loaded on the Commonwealth and Dominion Line’s motor-ship Port Fairy, which was despatched from Auckland for London, via Cape Horn, on Saturday. In addition to dairy produce the Port Fairy carried the first shipment of this season’s wool, over 5000 bales which were auctioned' at the sale last Saturday week. \ The allocations made for the Port Fairy by the Dairy Produce Board gave a total of 80,000 boxes of butter and 22,800 crates of eheese, one of the highest allotments to be made this season. Of this total, 53,715 boxes of butter and 8079 erates of eheese were loaded at Auckland. The loadings of butter in the South comprised 4991 boxes of butter at Wellington, 7989 boxes at New Plymouth, 5816 boxes at Wanganui, 2975 boxes at Gisborne and 4545 boxes at Lyttelton. The Southern shipments of eheese were 3928 erates at Wellington, 5464 crates at New Plymouth, 5179 crates from Patea at Wellington, 45 crates at Gisborne, and 105 crates at Napier. The wool taken to London includes 5582 bales sold at the Auckland sale and 58 bales which have been consigned locally. In addition there was a further quantity of wool which had been consigned by Southern owners in advance of sales in Southern centres. The remainder of the offering at the Auckland sale which was sold is to be shipped by the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner lonic, which is to sail next Saturday for London, via Panama.