THE CHEESE EXPORT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1914, Page 4

THE CHEESE EXPORT.

The cheese export of NCw Zealand lias now exceeded that ol butter in Quantity, though not in value. Figures obtained hy the Wellington “Post, through the courtesy of the Director of the Dairy Produce Division of the Department of Agriculture, show that for the year ended .‘list Ma veil last the total value of cheese exported was very little below that of butter. The butter exported was 375,17icwt. (18,773 tons), valued at £2, IPG, off), an increase over the preceding year of 91 per cent, in quantity and of £110,257 In value. Cheese exported totalled (550,001 cwt. (32,500 tons), valued at £2.112,503. an increase of no less than 28 per cent, in quantity and £351.779 in value. A year that sew an increase of 32,763 cwt. in butter and 135,068 cwt. in cheese has beer followed hy another good spring and summer, and estimates made in the trade suggest that when the present season is complete cheese will lead in value as well as weight, and the iota l value of dairy produce exported wiP he in the neighbourhood of five millions sterling. Twenty years ago it was £388.183.