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Quantities of Butter exported from all Ports for the Years ended March, 1916, and March, 1917.

Quantities of Cheese exported from All Ports for the Years ended March, 1916, and March, 1917.

Grading of Butter and Cheese. Table showing the Grading-points scored by the Butter and Cheese graded throughout New Zealand for the Year ended 31st March, 1917.

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Port. 19! 5-10. 1916-17. Increase, 1916-17. Decrease, 1916-17. Net Total De crease, 1916-17. Auckland Gisborne New Plymouth . . Wanganui Patea Wellington Lyttelton and Timaru Dunedin Paekages. 470,691 7,143 132,944 8,769 1.1,572 144,309 9,856 7,554 792,838 Packages. 403,455 8,405 112,816 13,829 14,908 140,780 26,694 19,174 740,061 Packages. 1,262 5,060 3,336 Packages. 67,236 Rf-< . 20,128 !'■■" . . i i ;: ■ ■ 3,529 Packages. 16,838 11,620 Totals .. 38,116 90,893 52.777

Port, Auckland Gisborne New Plymouth . . Wanganui Patea Wellington Lyttelton and Timaru Dunedin Bluff 1915-16. Packages. 55,361 525 107,527 .. i 10,379 .. | 173,413 133,120 .. | 9,725 26,475 75,285 1916-17. Increase. ,. ! Net Total InDeorease. L eaae> 1916 _ 17 . Packages. 68,405 Packages. 13,044 Packages. Packages. 99.463 11,695 142,920 143,047 15,567 20,976 92,562 525 8,064 I ,316 30,493 9,927 5,842 5,499 17,277 44,581 2,825 Totals . . 591,810 594,635 47,406

(trading-points. Butter. Cheese. Number of Boxes. | Percentage. Number of Cases. Percentage. 72 76 77 78| 81 814 82 82! 83 83| 84 84£ 85 85| 86 86| 88 88| 89 89| 90 90! 91 91! 92 92! 93 93! 94 94-! 95 95! 96 " ! 15 48 52 110 37 143 176 342 379 1,279 1,392 2,923 4,398 6,960 2.849 11.531 11.543 36.118 38,194 66.5"8 69,800 89,746 110,6,30 130,273 110,794 73,972 142,011 46,341 13,913 7.636 1,980 180 00015 0-0048 0-0053 0-0112 0-0037 00145 0-0178 0-0347 0-0381 0-1297 0-1411 0-2963 0-4459 0-7057 0-2886 1-1692 1-5747 3 6621 3 8725 6-7455 7-0773 9-0999 11-2173 13 2090 110234 7-4958 14-3992 4-6987 1-4107 0-7742 0 3007 00181 78 54 228 206 55 288 91 472 497 I ,398 I ,521 5,952 8,198 17,041 10,192 27,395 29.494 51,647 82,6.30 106,281 101.156 88,491 60,161 42,650 22,210 10,283 3,548 2,403 55 80 j 0-0011 . 0-0008 0-0334 0-0305 0-0C08 0-0426 0-0134 0-( 699 0-0733 0-2071 0-2269 0-8820 1-2150 2-5010 1-5104 4-0599 4-3696 7 6543 12-2459 15-7510 14-9915 13-1160 8-9161 63208 32915 1 -3574 0 5106 03561 00081 00103