BUTTER AND CHEESE.
SOME LARGE CONSIGNMENTS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] " KLttNGTON, Sunday. Dairy produce has been figuring largely of late in the cargo lists of. vessels leaving for London. Since* August 11 369,858 boxes of butter and 88,417 crates of cheese have left Wellington in 12 steamers. Included in these totals' is the shipment taken by the Tainui, which sailed at six a.m. yesterday. The consignment was made up as follows — Boxes Crates Butler. Cheese. Auckland ... ... 25,344 499 i New Plymouth ... 14,868 2,679 Patea ... ... 5.068 5,049 ' Wellington «... 13,712 5,396 Lyttelton ... ... 1,746 690 Totals ... 59,732' 14,313 The Athenxc, which left Wellington on December 31, 1909,. took 54,140 boxes, of butter and 16,463 crates oil cheese. Shipments of daily produce from New Zealand to date during the present season, as compared with tho corresponding period of last year, were as follows: — 9256 tons, an increase of 12 per cent., and cheese 6349 tone?, a decrease of 18 per cent.' The butter export from Australia during the same period was 10,787 tons, an increase of 46 per cent. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14567, 2 January 1911, Page 6
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