THE GOLDEN COW
DALRYFARMERS’ ADVANCES. FOR DECEMBER.
AUCKLAND PROVINCE QUOTA CHEQUES TOTAL £«56,000.
‘(Special to the Times.) AUCKLAND, Jan.2o. Cheques for a sum totalling approximately £886,600 were distributed among the dairy farmers ot the Auckland province to-day, the total representing the amount that will be advanced against butter ana cheese received into grading store at Auckland during -December. The amount is about £4.0,000 less than the total distributed on January 2U last year, when prices for New Zealand dairy produce, were higher than those now ruling. The calculation for this month payout is based oil butter fat nayments of 1/1 £ for butter and 1/3' for cheese, the advances to factories for manufactured products being 1/11 for first grade butter and GJd for first grade cheese. The butter products will receive the greatest part of the advances. Last month they sent 290.033 boxes of butter to grading store, and. for it they will receive 0 an advance of approximately £783,000. , Cheese suppliers forwarded 27,594 crates of cheese, and they will receive £103,000. The output ' of dairy produce by the New Zealand Co operative Dairy Company Limited has remained almost stationary for the last eight weeks, the period of peak supply of butterlat being much longer that usual owing to the remarkably ‘ favourable seasonal conditions. In the Waikato the pastures are still fresh and green, the second growth after the mowing of the liay paddocks, being exceptionally good. The advance payments made to suppliers to-day for the December supply *s 1/1 per lit. butter-fat for superfine butter, and 1/2 for superfine cheese.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10313, 24 January 1927, Page 2
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260THE GOLDEN COW Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10313, 24 January 1927, Page 2
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