BUTTER, CHEESE, AND WOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1922, Page 5

BUTTER, CHEESE, AND WOOL.

BUTTER MUCH BRISKER, CHEESE IN GOOD DEMAND. WOOL MARKET EASIER, (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. The butter trade is much brisker all round owing to colder weather and short supplies of Danish, due to ice at Copenhagen. New Zealand salted choicest 138/ to 140/, secondary 120/ to 13*2/, unsalted 160/. Australian choicest salted 120/ to 130/, secondary 116/ to lSty, ujisalted 135/ to 140/. Cheese is in good demand. Best Xew Zealand white 92/ to 94/, coloured 100/. Australian white 86/ to 90/, coloured 92/ to 96/. The Bradford wool market is quiet, and has a slightly easier tendency, buyers being cautious. At the Bawra. sale in Liverpool merinos were five per cent below London prices, but had strong competition at a reduction. Crossbreds were unchanged. Seoureds and slipos were easier.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) INFLUENZA IN NEW YORK. 1,300 CASES A DAY. 8O TO 100 DEATHS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 9. The number of influenza cases is mounting from 1,000 to 1,300 cases daily. Deaths fronv influenza and pneumonia combined are between 80 and 100 a day. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) AN OPPONENT FOR DEMPSEY. TOM GIBBONS AND HARRY GREB. fßeccived 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, FebruaTy 9. Ton> Gibbons and Harry Grcb are matched to meet at Madison Square Gardens on March 13, the proceeds to go to charity. It is expected that the winner will be matched with Jack Dempsey.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) AMERICAN FARMERS' POOL CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING. {Received 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 9. Congress has passed the Co-operative Marketing Bill, authorising farmers, ranchers, dairymen, planters, nut and fruit growers collectively to handle and sell their products, the Secretary for Agriculture alone determining whether the associations thus formed are monopolies, or whether they unduly enhance prices.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) LONDON AS WOOL CENTRE. OPPOSITION TO HULL SCHEME. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 9. The Colonial Wool Merchants' Association passed a resolution expressing the opinion that London is incomparably the best market for the sale of consigned colonial wool, as world competition is centred there. The Association strongly deprecates any encouragement to outside ports as contrary to the interests of growers.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.),