WEST COAST REFRIGER ATING CO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 17 June 1913, Page 5

WEST COAST REFRIGER ATING CO.

A SUCCESSFUL YEAR. * Jfl*l * / t l Like its sister institution—the' P*4"v tea Co-operative "Freezing; Company—r-the West Coast Refrigerate^ ing has had a record year^ (says the-Patea Press)." Thtf total' :*s£s clieese shipped up to date has heeii^ 147,616 -'cases, together with J&|jOlsfe boxes of butter.' "Out of this'guantif^-^7 112,538 cases of clieese were shipped; *i&-'{ London and thY balance to "West tME^ England p'oi'ts: " .• , V'^' The figures for last year were 114,53$ cas.es of cheese and 40,008 boxes Jiiir >T butter. ■'; : .';-: • -"- * '^V^ .Valuing the cheese at £4 pcr s caso!^ji and the butter at £3 -'per^box*, "the.H"»j figures work out at -£660,96? iOj^^vj present year's shipments, and £57^8E8 for last year, or aii increase "of £62,5fft^| for the present year. The figures,are^B striking as showing the value of f the*™ dairy produce manufactured in South-■ crn Taranaki. They also serve to sh<>w\fl incidentally that the port of Patea is -1 not the least important of the export q ports in the Dominion. With the J value of dairy produce alone reaching: - close on three-quarters of a million, a annually and mci easing year by year^ } I it can be seen that every effort should'M be put for.wa.rd by the Harbor Board ' in the direction ot improving the port;.,