A VALUABLE CARGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19511, 15 December 1926, Page 14

A VALUABLE CARGO.

PRODUCE ON THE TAINUI. VALUE OVER HALF A MILLION. LARGE BUTTER CONSIGNMENT. New Zealand producers, particularly the farmers of the Auckland province, have a vital interest in the departure for London this afternoon of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Line steamer Tainui. She is taking to the London market a cargo of Dominion produce valued at approximately £590,000, of which £430,000 represents the Auckland quota. While this is by no means a record cargo for the port of Auckland, it is, nevertheless, a very substantial and valuable one, containing, as it does, a considerable proportion of the new season's butter and a large quantity of the wool disposed of at the sale in Auckland last month; The butter loaded at Auckland amounted to 44,000 boxes, which, together with about 3000 boxes taken in at Southern ports, makes a total of 47,000 boxes. The Auckland butter is worth roughly £184,000. There are also 20,000 crates of cheese, of which 11,000, valued at £77,000, were loaded at Auckland. The wool, which has bscn loaded at various ports, totals 10,000 bales, worth approximately £200,000, of which 8000 bales were loaded at Auckland. Frozen meat was not loaded in any quantity is Auckland, but 15,000 carcases of mutton and lamb were taken in at Napier and other ports, valued in all at about £22,000. Also included in the cargo are 200 packages of frozen sundries, 400 bales of skins, 500 sacks of hides, 400 casks of tallow, 750 cases of dried milk and milk powder, 600 bales of flax and 300 sacks of grass seed. The Tainui is duo at London about January 22.