EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19858, 31 January 1928, Page 11

EXPORT OF PRODUCE.

BUTTER AND CHEESE. SHIPPING SPACE AVAILABLE. LARGE SHIPMENTS FOR SEASON. [by telegraph.—own* correspondent.] WELLINGTON. Monday. Although the prolonged spell of dry weather is affecting production in the dairying industry, large allotments of shipping space have been made for butter and cheese in seventeen steamers which are to leave the Dominion during the next six weeks The bookings for - these ships total 453,951 boxes of butter and 205,378 crates of cheese, practically all of which is for the United Kingdom. The total shipments from the Dominion this seaiion, starting last August, and including the bookings up to the steamer sailing on March 17, will be about 2,300,000 boxes of butter (approximately 57,500 tens) and 678,000 crates ofcheese. The Tairoa, which will sail from Napier on Wednesday for London, will take 21,016 boxes of butter and 20,265 crates of cheese, and is due in London on March 10. The Rimutaka, sailing from Auckland on Thursday, and duo in London on March 13, will take 30,000 boxes of butter and 26,000 crates of cheese, and the Ruahine, leaving Wellington next Saturday, and due in London on March 11, will have 34,000 boxes of butter. The Gallic, sailing finally from Auckland on February 9, for New York, Halifax, and West of England ports, will nave 77,660 boxes of butter, of which large shipment 65,320 boxes are being loaded at Auckland.