DAIRYING MARKETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 6

DAIRYING MARKETS.

CUSTOMEBS OF AUCKLAND. WHERE OUR BUTTER GOES. NUMEROUS DESTINATIONS. ' • . , 'V ; ' \ •*.' ODD CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Au interesting departure from tha everyday reviews of dairy produce prices and figures of production—palatable as these are at the moment—is an excursion into statistics relative to the destinations of shipments which have left this port since April 1 last. While the United Kingdom takes by far the greater part of the dairy produce of the province, it is gratifying to find that Canada, the United States and Honolulu, Australia, China and Japan are so greatly increasing their purchases from the Dominion, while smaller parcels are finding their way into odd coiners of the globe where markets of potential magnitude await exploitation. From Samaratig.and Rangoon to Borneo and Africa, doe 3 some of the produce of the great herds of the Waikato, the Northland and the Bay of Plenty find its way, and if some of these infant markets are as yet no significant factor many may be in the years to come.. All are helping along, with the greater "outside" consumers like the United States, to aase the strain on the British market and thus tend to a firmer range of values. Their geographical situation, too, is im* portaiit, since the establishment of markets in both hemispheres makes for a more even demand the year round and tends to achieve through natural means what methods of compulsory control failed to accomplish.

Canada's Qreat Demand. Looking first to the great market tor butter and cheese—the United Kingdom —there is immediate satisfaction in .rioting an increase in shipments by over 130,000 boxes of butter and more thau 10,000 crates of cheese.

The result of the new Canadian policy to export practically all that Dominion's make of butter and-import from New Zealand and other southern dairying centres for winter supplies, has been remarkable. Not only has Canada taken 209,000 more boxes of butter—an increase of nearly 400 per cent, over the corresponding period of the previous year—but 1556 crates of cheese as well. In the 1926-27 period no shipments of cheese to Canada were recorded.

A great increase in shipments to Australia, due largely to the dlouglit in the Commonwealth and the operation cf the Paterson export bounty scheme, has resulted in butter shipments increasing From 48,763 boxes to 117,671 boxes and cheese by nearly 100 per cent. The East, Java and Africa. Trade with the East is forging ahead, particularly in the casa of China,!which absorbed 7811 boxes of butter and 320 crates of cheese from the Auckland market, compared With a mere 1540 boxes of butter and no cheese at all last year. Items in the schedule of exports from Auckland which break new ground on a comparison with last year are the ship ment of substantial quantities of butiei to Panama aiid Africa. Superficially, Java's purchase of 1620 boxes of butter may not appear important, but like China and Japan it is h land of teeming millions who are rapidly making a place foi butter in the national diet. The following table shows the destina tion of all boxes of butter and crates ol cheese shipped from Auckland between April 1 last and up to the end of February, with a comparison for the corresponding period of the 1926-27 financial year•

BUTTER. 1337-28. 1926-2V. United Kingdom .. 1,329,991 . 1,199,933 Canada .. ,. .. 295,2(51 Bti,2U4 Australia .. 117,071 U.S.A. and Honolulu .. 75,885 5i,o»a China .. ..." 7,811 1.540 Singapore .. 6,145 4,»"i0 Panama. . . .. , 4,500 South Sea Islands .2,202 1,728 Japan , 3.700 2,8i,0 Africa .. .. j.. 2,000 _i J a\ a .. .1,620 . 1,321 Manilla .. .. 1,957 2.782 India and Ceylon .. 392 50 Borneo .. ., 10 18 Germany .. — 931 Miscellaneous, including .Rangoon and Samara us 131 — CHEESE. 1927-28. 19C6-27. United Riugdom .. 145,201 182.S30 Canada .. .. .. 1,550 i 3" Australia 4,! ; 57 2,404 China aw ■■ South Sea Islands .. . 204 147