THE BUTTER EXPORT TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9480, 7 December 1907, Page 6

THE BUTTER EXPORT TRADE.

SOME LARGE CONSIGNMENTS.

Now that the favorable weather has set in the outputs of butter at the various factories are showing notable increases. Better still, it is most satisfactory to tm<t that tue umount of butter received during the fortoight ending November 2Y at the Government stores, Auckland, constitutes a .record output for the pro. vince, 15,291 boxes, upwards of 382 tons having been sent in for export, which, taking the creamery buffer at about £98 per ton and milled butter as worth £89, reaches a total of over £37,050. The bulk ot this quantity (says the .banners' Weekly) is for London, which will receive a shipment of 13,474 boxes. The number ot boxes -for West of England ports is 1116, while 450 boxes will be shipped to South Africa, and 251 boxes to the South Sea Islands. v

The cheese output consists of 396 cases, containing 495 cwt, and is set down at about £1286 in value.

It is interesting to note that the output of butteT for the corresponding period of last year was 14,933 boxes (373 tons), 01 which 14,108 boxes were shipped to Great Britain, 600 to South Africa, and 225 to the South Sea Islands. It will thus be seen that while the exports to South Africa show a falling off, Great Britain and the South Sea Islands have both received increased quantities from Auckland. The decrease in the South African trade cannot, however, be taken as an indication of a general decline in the quantity of butter exported for that market, as it is fully anticipated the whole of this season's ewpoTt will be in advance of that of last year.