REVENUE FIGURES

Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 26

REVENUE FIGURES

BUTTER AND CHEESE PRODUCTION. WELLINGTON, May 4 Tho revenue collected at New Zealand Post and Telegraph Offices for the March, quarter was over £20,000 greater tlian that collected in the corresponding period a year ago, and on the Postal side there waa an increase of nearly £28,000, but the Telegraph business fell away by about £6OO. Ik® S'Oaount of Savings Bank deposits waa £6,3/6,243, and the amount of withdrawals was £6,767,307. The excess of withdrawals over deposits was £391,063. In the 1921 r £7-093,358 was deposited and £7,501,715 withdrawn. The figures for th© Dairy Division of tho Department of Agriculture show that in “PJJ }> 1921, the butter graded amounted to 78,2iu0cwt. In April, 1921, the butter a-mounted to 28,060, an increase of K?r The cheese graded in April, 1922, was 113.254 cwt; in f§2l, 76,989 cwt, an increase of 53.5 per cent. The butter total for the nine months ended April 30 1922 was 916,410; in April, 1921, 668,613, ’an im crease 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, am 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.