DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 20 October 1914, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORTS

AUCKLAND SHIPMENTS

BY TEI.EGB4PH PRESS ABSOOI4TTON. AUCKLAND. Oct. 19. This week a total of 25,000 boxes of butter from Auckland is to be shipped to London This brings the total up to 61,408 boxes of butter exported from Auckland this season. Up to this time last year only 29,837 boxes, including 12,313 for Vancouver, and 17,524 for London, had been shipped. The approximate value of the butter cargo referred to is £70,000. The total value of this season's output is approximately £171 950. V The first shipment of cheese, consisting of 500 crates., is to be sent away at the same time. Up to this time last season only 191 crates of cheese had been exported. . . ■ ' Butter is still coming forward very freely for export, and production i's now in full swing. The pastures are in splendid condition in all parts of the .province,- but it is probable that rain will-be badly needed soon, as there has been an unusually long spell of dry weather. " ' . -": ; .