FIRST SHIPMENT OF CONTROLLED BUTTER

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3462, 25 September 1926, Page 10

FIRST SHIPMENT OF CONTROLLED BUTTER

CORINTHIC SAILS VROM AUCKLAND. CONSIGNMENT OF 68,000 BOXES. j At daybreak on Thursday the ■Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's liner Corinthic left for England with a cargo comprising mainly meat and dairy produce to a total value of about a million and a-quartcr pounds. The shipment, while not a record, is exceptionally large for a first shipment of (he season, says the “Herald.” This applies more especially to the consignment of butter, which totals 68,000 boxes, 55,000 boxes having boon loaded at Auckland. The total value of the butter is said down at £273,000. In addition to the butter (he following produce, is being sent from Auckland: —4000 crates of cheese, valued at approximately £25,000; 2000 cases of dried milk, 1000 packages of kauri gum, 250 casks of tallow. 250 crates of eggs, 400 bales of wool. 125 bales of flax, 50 bales of leather and 50 bales of skins. The wool from Auckland is valued at about £7200. Tile Southern consignment comes from (he ports of Wellington and Timaru. These ports have contributed fairly equally to the shipment of mutton, the total being 60,000 freight carcases and the value approximately £90,000, Other product) loaded at Wellington and Timaru includes 13,000 eases of butter, 1200 boles of wool, 600 bales of flax. 850 eVates of eggs, 500 sacks of hides and 250 casks of tallow. It is expected that with improved marketing condition the shipment will have a ready sale in England. New season’s products are always popular, and as the butter market shows an improving tendency the consignment of 65,u00 eases in all should meet with a good demand. It is expected the small quantity of wool will meet with an increased inquiry. The record shipment of butler from Now Zealand in one vessel was 135,608 boxes, despatched by the Gallic in 1 920. The same vessel also carried 38,603 freight carcases of meat.