DAIRYING AFFAIRS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1641, 19 May 1919, Page 8

DAIRYING AFFAIRS.

CANTERBURY'S YEAR. SOME INTERESTING FIGITBES. The annual report of the South Island Dairy Association, to be presented to the general meeting of members, in DuDedin, next, month, gives some interesting figures of dairy produce exports for the year ended April 30, 1919. South Island shipments for the year, with the quantities of cheese remaining in store at the various ports at its end, were as follow: — CHEESE. Crates. Crates in shipped. . store. Bluff 66,289 49,600 Duncdiu 30,594 16,350 Lytteltou .. .... .17,345 13,500 South Island totals 114,228 79,450 CREAMERY BUTTER. Boxes Shipped. Lytteiton 40,204 *Duncdin ... 20,129 Total 60393 *lncludes butter from three Southland factories-, as none is shipped from Bluff. WHEY BUTTER. Boxes Shipped. *Dunedin 3354 Lytteltou .. 423 Total *'•.. .. 3777 *lncludes ' butter from five Southland factories. No figures of butter held in store are given, so it may be taken that it was all shipped. The Ashbuiton factory heads the butter list with an export of 35,333 cases. In cheese, the Taieri and Peninsula Co. sent away 8816 crates, but the leader of the co-operative factories was Edendale, Southland, which exported 5504 crates. The details of the Lytteiton exports were:— CREAMERY BUTTER. Factory. .Boxes. Avon .. 2,415 Ashburton 3a,33.S Akaroa .. 2,042 Canterbury Central .. .. 16394 Christchurch Co-operative .. 70l> Canterbury Dairy Co 1,023 Canterbury Alpine .. .. 2,u34 Geraldinc .. •• 437 Kohotahi (West Coast i. .. . 213 Murray, A. J 323 Tai Tapu .. .. 1,656 Temuka. .. ~'. 2,294 Titnaru Cool Stores .. .. 1,185 Scfton 5,509 * Total .-: .... . - .. 40304 WHEY BUTTER. Factory. Boxes. Ashburton * 138 Claudeboyc 83 . Okain's Bay 86 Temuka Co-operative .. .. 113 Total .. .. .... • • 423 CHEESE. Factory. Crates shipped. Ashburton M? Barry's Bay 179t Clandeboye 2193 Cam .. ... .. H93 Essydalc .. .-. 476 Gcraldine 570 Little Akaroa .. 722 -Le Bon's Bay .. 484 Okain's Bay 2200 Pigeon Bay .. .. 709 Staveley 1470 Takamatua ..967 Temuka 1623 Wainui .- 530 Waiwera .. 1406 W. H. Jakins 92 Total ~ 17,345 CANTERBURY REMITS. Remits from three Canterbury factories will come up for consideration at the annual meeting. They are as follow: — Ashburiton Co-operative Dairy Company: ," The outlook in the near future for shipping freights on all farm produce is a serious menace td the prosperity of New Zealand, and it is therefore imperative that all dairy companies and meat export companies combine for common defence and support of a fair rate of freight.'.' Clandeboye Co-operative Dairy Company: "That a committee be set up: (a) To consider the best means of obtahiing cheaper insurance and storage facilities; (b) the appointment of a commercial expert to assist in shaping a more progressive policy for the association." Staveley Cooperative Dairy Company: '' That a committee be set up to report to the association on the practicability of a general insurauce scheme for the dairying industrv.'' OTHER POINTS. Included in the remits from Southland companies are several which are of wide interest, as, for example, the following:— Edendale Co-operative Dairy Factory Company: (1) Disposal of output of cheese: "That this meeting of delegates is of opinion that the best way to secure full market price for cheese on the British market is to combine, and ship through the association to one duly appointed agent at Home." (2) Rennet: "Has the association taken any steps to secure a permanent supply of British-made rennet? If not, that it be a recommendation to the executive to take such action as may be necessary to secure such supplies." ■ > ; Birehwood Co-operative Dairy CoiuIpany: (1) "That it be a,recommendation to dairy factories to promste the formation of herd-testing associations." (2-) "That the Government bo urged to hire from selected centres purebred bulls of proved milking strain merit to bona fido dairymen at reasonable rates." (3) "That the association, enter its protest-