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Show New Zealand Becoming Dairy Products Leader The New Zealander Is the world's champion butter eater, the per cap lta consumption being around 37.T 1 pounds, while, on the other hand, h ! puts up a poor showing whea It comes to eating cheese. Dairy products account fr almost 25 per cent of the total value of Ner Zealand's output of all kinds. She established a record In butter production pro-duction for the year ended July St, 1934, there being an Increase of 9.55 per cent over the preceding year. Production has been steadily lncreas Ing since 1026. New Zealand also piled up another an-other record In butterfat production, estimated at 220 pounds per cow, as compared with 214.8 the previous season. New Zealand and Australia together supply nearly one-half of the butter Imports Into the United Kingdom, which has doubled Its butter but-ter Imports lilnce 1915, New Zealand's Zea-land's share being 2S.55 per cent. Ia the case of cheese. New Zealand's exports are always wholly to the United Kingdom. There was a slight Increase I.i cheese production. |