LOCAL WOOL SALE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7025, 13 January 1910, Page 3

LOCAL WOOL SALE

Tuesday, February 13lb, 3 p.rd

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.

Tho figures available by the lust leaflet of tho Industries and Commerce Division of the department enable an instructive comparison to In made of the dairy produce shipment., during tho past four months, or practically the first half ot the season, from tho different districts of the Dominion. ’Die most striking fact is the remarkable development of cl.nr.yin,, in -this island, especially of checseu akin" for in tho production, ot this latter’commodity tho North Is.aiid non easily maintains tho premier position, though for many years Otago was the homo of cheese-making in tins country. Tho value of the export of dairy produce from tho different districts tor tho four months, tho fortnightly figures being given separately, is'as follows: Auck- Tara- Welling- South land. naki. ton. Island. ££ £ h _ 4,778 030 4,871 1,90' 4,307 0,426 2,619 304 18 217 24.662 12,918 719 29’sor 74.237 24,412 8,508 41511 60j285 3-1,402 9,536 49,379 70,105 47,939 24.825 ‘54 307 63,387 43,728 42,944 33,776 84,814 53,457 39,631 235 $96 397,866 22-1,346 123,464 In addition to these totals, tho minor districts made tho following shipments: —Poverty Bay, £5347; Hawke’s Bay, £17,602; Marlborough, £4902; Nelson, £8104; and Westland, £361. This brings tho total shipments from tho two islands up to: North, £880,857; South, £142,191; total for Dominion, £1,023,048. The district showing tho most remarkable advance is undoubtedly Auckland. Tho increase from October 15th to January 7th was estimated at nearly forty thousand boxes of butter, of a value of over £90,000.