STRIKING FIGURES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18757, 14 April 1923, Page 5

STRIKING FIGURES

BUTTER AND CHEESE EXPORTS. ADVANTAGES OF WANGANUI. Striking figures illustrated of the rapidly increasing value of the local butter and cheese export trade were given by the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company, in a letter received by the Wanganui Harbour Board last evening, in which they sought the lease of a small strip of additional land adjacent to their works at Castlecliff to provide ad ditionaJ storage capacity. The letter stated: “This company for a considerable period has been nsing its best endeavours to foster the handling of butter and cheese at the Port of Wanganui, and has been largely instrumental in getting Wanganui declared a grading port. To encourage this trade to Wanganui the storage rates on this dairyproduce were fixed by the company at a very low figure, in fact, so low, as to be almost unremunerative. The following details of butter and cheese handled by us over a period of years show the measure of sue cess which has attended the com pany’s efforts to foster the trade.

The quantity of dairy produce for shipment from Wanganui will depend upon the facilities and methods of handling, also the total cost of placing on Home boats. As showing how we are keeping the charges down we give below the charges at various ports, at all of which, much larger quantities are handled than we have here. The following charges represent receiving, the handling for grading, stor ing for one month or part of a month, and also including wharfage:—

The chairman (Mr A. G. Bignell) said the Board should do everything possible to foster the trade. Mr T. B. Williams said that it was a request deserving of every support. The matter was referred to the Works Committee for a report.

Boxes Butter. Crates Cheese, 1912 12,152 2,656 1913 13,637 5,144 1914 18,743 5,574 1915 19,631 6,517 1916 10,140 15,080 1917 14,446 11,458 1918 15,057 12,462 12,379 1919 16,597 1920 20,664 13,374 1921 35,015 9,751 1922 50,482 11,598

Butter. Cheese. Box. Ton. Auckland , . 9d 11/ Wallington . 7%d 12/ Patea .. 7d 11 / New Plymouth . . . 7d 11/ Wanganui . fi</ 2 d 10/6