OUR EXPORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 8

OUR EXPORTS.

BI'TTBR AND CHEESE IiKCOKIK. In the course of his speech at Duneiliin on Tuo.*!ay. the Prime Miw'.-lcr slated that now records for butler and c!iees» were established during l)i.< year. BUTTER. In 1903-04 the qunntkv was 314.31!) owt., valued at £1.410,484'; in 1012-13 it was 3u!),l33c\vt.. valued a.t £2.(ir>!i.il]r>. and in 1013-14 the total was :;!).->.ICM cwt.. valued at £2,140,010. The increase" was over 25 per eent. in <|u;uHit.y a:u( over SO per cent, in value. CHEFSE. During 1012-13 the ipian.tilv o\in rled totalled U34,173cwt., vaju'd at i'l.s'.i!!.170: in 1013-14 it was 7-12,371ew!:., valued at £2.105,273, an increase uf IfISJOS.-wi. and of £33(1,004 in value compared with ten years ago. Now Zealand was now ex])or(in« more limn eight and a Imlf .time* tlio~<iuautily for more than ten and a half times the value. For the ftrsb time the value of cheese exceeded that of hotter. It was safe to predict n continuance of the present excellent market for cheese, and he 'believed, that before vong the Dominion's exports of cheese would reach the enormous .total of ,">o,oooi Urns annually. For Ulie year ended March 3]st. 1013, •iSfiowt. of honey valued at £llß2, was exported; for tihe nine month* ended December 31st, 1013, the qmui'tilv was lfiPOewt., valued ait £3203.