BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1915, Page 6

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

FOURTH SHIPMENT PROM NEW PLYMOUTH.

ESTIMATED VALUE, £63,894. TARANAKI EXPORTS TO DATE The fourtli shipment of the new season's dairy produce from New Plymouth from New Plymouth will be shipped on Monday, when the Corinna will take 8244 boxes of butter and 0260 crates of • cheese. At Wellington the produce will be shipped to the Turakina, which leave* for London next Thursday. The value* whicli the produce is expected to realise on the Homo .market remain the same, viz., £3 10s a box for butter and £<i a crate for cheese. At this estimate the butter will be worth £28,854 and the cheese £25,040. making the total of the shipment £53,894.

It must he remembered that while the greater portion of Taranaki's exports are dealt with at New Plymouth, a large quantity of produce is shipped from Patea, so that the returns from both these ports have to be summed to show Taranaki's total exports. The secretary of the West Coast Refrigerating Co., 'Patea, hag kindly supplied the details of the shipments from Patea this season, and, with the New Plymouth figures, they demonstrate the important position which Taranaki .plays in providing the Home market with butter and cheese. Both from Patea and New Plymouth three shipments have been made this season. New Plymouth has exported 28,241 boxes of butter, against 4265 boxes shipped from Patea, but Patea shows a much, stronger position in respect of cheese, having shipped 26,039 crates, as against T662 craes from New Plymouth. The estimated value of all the produce from New Plymouth is £129,491 10s, while for Patea it is £119,283 10b, making a total for Taranaki of £24<8,7?5. This does not include the shipment to be made next week. The following table shows the quantities of butter and cheese exported from Taranaki this season, and the amounts the shipments are expected to realise:—

FROM NEW PLYMOUTH, Date. Butter, Cheese, Estimated boxes, crates. value. £ a. Sept. 4.4 2,071 7,248 10 Oct. 10 ~ 15,159 3650 67,658 10 Oct. 22 . v 11,011 4012 64,586 10 Totals . 28,241 7682 129,491 10 • PROM PATEA. Sept. 9 ... 1712 2029 14,108 0 Oct. 12 .. 1683 14,505 03,910 10 Oct. 27 .. 870 9555 41,205 0 Totals • 4285 20,089 119,283 10 Grand Tl. 32,506 33.751 248,775 0