THE BUSY EXPORT SEASON

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 16

THE BUSY EXPORT SEASON

DAIRY PRODUCE FOR BRITAIN. BIG SHIPMENTS ARRANGED. The latest list of dairy produce loadings issued by the Dairy Board shows that the export season is now in full swing, with no sign of a diminution of output. Including eight ships now loading, the list of shipping space allotments provides for no fewer than 19 shipments sailing between December 24 and February 13, and totalling 829,'250 boxes of butter, and 289,850 crates of cheese. The quantities of dairy produce to be loaded at each port are as follows: —

Auckland’s share of the butter shipments is 66 per cent. The whole of the butter and cheese from Patea, and 5475 boxes of butter and ‘962 crates of cheese from Wanganui, will be transhipped at Wellington, for which port the total loadings will thus be 117,140 boxes of butter and 118,841 crates of cheese, the latter being 40 per cent, of the Dominion cheese •shipnients. Pollowing is a list of the ships with their approximate dates of sailing from New Zealand and arrival in Britain: — Port Dunedin, sails December 24, due 'United Kingdom February 2, with 40,250 boxes of butter and 20.500 crates of cheese; Rangitata, sails December 31, due United Kingdom February 2 with 55,000 boxes of butter; Raranga, sails December 31, due United Kingdom February 7 with 56.000 boxes of butter and 13,500 crates of cheese; Cumberland, sails January 5, due United Kingdom February 12 with 10,000 boxes of butter and 19,000 crates of cheese; Tairoa, sails January 11, due United Kingdom February I's with 48,000 boxes of butter and 19,'800 crates of cheese; Mataroa, sails January 13, due United Kingdom February 16 with 60,000 boxes of butter and 16,400 crates of cheese; Rotorua, sails January 13, due United Kingdom February I'B with 50,000 boxes of butter and 17,800 crates of cheese; Pakeha, sails January I'6, due United Kingdom February 23 with 52,000 boxes of butter and 14,100 crates of cheese; Hertford, sails January 21, due United Kingdom February 27 with 59,000 boxes of butter and 27,600 crates of cheese; Matakana, sails January 25, due United Kingdom March 2 with 20,000 boxes of butter and 1'5,000 crates of cheese; Rangitane, sails January 30, due United Kingdom March 3 with 54,000 boxes of butter and 14,850 crates of cheese; Port Fremantle, sails January 20, due United Kingdom March 8 with 30,000 boxes of butter and 16,200 crates of cheese; Herminius, sails January 30, due United Kingdom March 9 with 40,000 boxes of butter and 6900 crates of cheese; Port Melbourne, sails February 2, due United Kingdom March 13 with 50,000 boxes of butter and 10,800 crates of cheese; Norfolk, sails February 3, due United Kingdom March 12 with 50,000 boxes of butter and 11,000 crates of cheese; Opawa, sails February 6, due United Kingdom March 10 with 15,000 boxes of butter and 21,800 crates of cheese; Mahana, sails February 10, due United Kingdom March 17 with 45,000 boxes of butter and 16,300 crates of cheese; Tainui, sails February 10, due United Kingdom March 18 with 3'5,000 boxes of butter and 13,500 crates of cheese; Port Caroline, sails February 13, due United Kingdom March 24 with 60,000 boxes of butter and 14,800 crates of cheese. Totals: Boxes butter, '829,250; crates cheese, 289,850. The Tairoa, Hertford, Norfolk and Opawa will take part shipments for West of Britain ports. Three shipments totalling 198,093 'boxes of butter and 72,958 crates of cheese, left by the lonic, Northumberland and Port Huon for London last week.

Butter boxes Cheese crates Auckland .. 647,SHO 42,187 Wellington .. 103,172 62,209 New Plymouth ... ,. 167,354 61,495 Patea .. 8,493 65,670 27,37’5 6,737 Napier 13,3'57 303 17,959 385 South Island .. 43,721 60,864 Total .. >829,250 289,850