THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5206, 16 January 1913, Page 2

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

SHIPMENTS TO LONDON AND VANCOUVER.

By Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, Last Night.

Large consignments of butter are to be shipped from Auckland at the end of this week for Vancouver and for London. The total number of boxes to be sent out of Auckland is 29,922, an increase of 2183 boxes over the last shipment. The welcome rains which came with the New Y'ear are no doubt responsible in a great measure for this substantial increase. Ordinarily the usual decline would have been expected this month, but when reports came from the Waikato Valley that the pasture there was still good, it was thought that if rain fell round about Auckland and in the North the present shipment would at any rate be equal to that taken by the Ruapehu, A steady increase is shown in the quantities of butter exported to Canada by the Canadian-Austral-asian liners, and the present indications support the belief that an extensive market is open for New Zealand high-grade butters in Britain’s biggest Dominion. On Friday the Makura outward bound from Sydney to Vancouver, is to lift 11,735 boxes of butter at Auckland.

In consequence of the heavy demands from Canada, the usual fortnightly shipment to London shows a considerable falling-off, when compared with the consignments taken by the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Ruapehu. The Corinna, due at Onehunga on Friday or Saturday next, will load 20,000 boxes from transhipment to the White Star liner Athenic at Wellington. With the addition of the consignment to Vancouver and London to be dispatched this week, the total shipments since the commencement of the season on September 9th are brought up to 238,263 boxes, which at a mean average price on the Home market of 116s a cwt will be worth £690,962 4s. The price quoted in the latest London cables for New Zealand is 118 a a cwt. The cheese for the Home market is to be sent to Wellington via the East Coast. The Mokoia, which is to sail on Saturday, „ will take 700 crates. With this total the aggregate tor the season sent out of Auckland is 10,200 crates.

The amount of butter manufactured by the Cambridge Co-opera-tive Dairy Company during the month of December was 195,7131b, and the suppliers being paid at the rate of lid per lb for butter-fat the amount to he distributed on the 20th inat. will be £8970 2s lid. This establishes a record for the company, it being 50001b morn than was made during November last. During December, 1911, 169,0191b of butter were made at the factory, which at IOAd per lb, the amount then allowed for butter-fat. represented £7394 17s 7d. Butter at that time on the English market was 131s fid per cwt, while now it is quoted at 117s. Ihe fact that a larger price is being paid this year while the price on the Home market is lower, indicates that the suppliers must not look fur as substantial a bonus at the close of the season as they received last year, when it amounted to something like 2d per

The amounts to be paid out by the Te Aroha Co-operative Dairy Company for December are as follows: Waihou, £1443 14s sd; Te Aroha West, £1914 las 3d; Eaatport road, £1037 19s lid; Mangaiti, £lO4l 19s sd; Turangamoana £759 12s Id; Mangawhero, £915 18s sd; Okauia, £338 14s 1 Od; Time, £695 5s sd; Aylesbury, £415 15s 3d; home separated cream, £763 8s Id. Total, £9408 3s Id. The figures arc an advance of £2320 11a 5d over the corresponding month of last season.