REVENUE FIGURES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18547, 6 May 1922, Page 7

REVENUE FIGURES

BUTTER AND CHEESE PRODUCTION. (Pbb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. May a The revenue collected at rscw Zealand Post and" Telegraph Offices for the March quarter was over £20,000 greater than that collected in the corresponding period a year ago, and on the Postal side there was an increase of nearly £28,000, but the Telegraph business fell away by about £6OO. The amount of Savings Bank deposits was £6,376,243. and the amount of withdrawals was £6,767,307. The excess of withdrawals over deposits was £391,063. In the 1921 quarter £7,893,358 was deposited and £7,501,715 withdrawn. The figures for the Dairy Division of the Department' of Agriculture show that in April. 1921,' the butter graded amounted to 78,S00owt. In. April, 1921, the butter graded amounted to 28,060, an increase of 178.6 per cent. The cheese graded in April, 1922, was 118.254 cwt; in ,1921, 76,9890 wt, an increase of 53.5 per cent. The butter total for the nine months ended April 30, 1922, was 916,410; in April, 1921, 668,615, an increase of 37 per cent. The cheese total for the nine months ended April 30, 1922, was 1,192,675 cw t: April, 1921, 1,059,183, an increase of 12,6 per cent. Converting these figures, into butter-fat equivalent, there is an increase of 26.75 per cent, in butter for production for the nine-monthly period ending April 30, 1922, as compared with the corresponding period of 1920-1921.