DAIRY FACTORIES IN NEW ZEALAND, 1930.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 41, Issue 1, 21 July 1930, Page 66

DAIRY FACTORIES IN NEW ZEALAND, 1930.

The following table presents the registrations of factories under the Dairy Industry Act as .at. 31st March last, together with the quantities of butter and cheese forwarded to grading-stores for export during the year ended 31st March, 1929, and the numbers of milk or cream suppliers to the factories: —-

Whey butter was manufactured as a side-line. at. eighty of the above cheesefactories in 1929-30, the total quantity forwarded for export being 1,133 tons. This is not included in the total amount of 91,467 tons of butter given in the table, which refers to creamery butter only. In the 1929-30 period there were also operating in the Dominion five milkpowderfactories (three whole-milk and two skim-milk plants), six casein-factories, two condensed-milk factories, and one sugar-of-milk factory.

District. ’ Number of Factories. Forwarded for Export, 1929-30. Number of Suppliers to Factories. Butter. Cheese. Dual Plant. Total. Butter. Cheese. Butter. , Cheese and Dual Plant. Auckland ' ' . . 62 35 4 IOI Tons. 61,247 Tons. 13,335 19, 176 1,339 Taranaki ' ”19 ' 73 34 ■ 126 10,705 36,369 3,226 3,961 Wellington .. 19 49 8 76 9,721 13,072 5,665 1,678 Hawke’s Bay • .. IO W I . : . 28 4-373 3.447 4,007 672 Nelson ... . . .■ .’6 . ■ 3 ■■ .1 IO 429 547 1207 685 Marlborough 3 ■ . 2 3 .8 646 947 759 191 Westland . . IO 2 12 -504 19 668 9 Canterbury i\ 9 . 15 .2 26 1,243 2,146 4,715 2,022 Otago and Southland 12 77 I 90 1, 59.9. 14781 6, 169 3,268 Totals ” ... 150 273 54 477 91,467 84,763 45,592 13,825