KEEN DEMAND FOR BUTTER.
SPECULATORS ACTIVE. SHORTAGE NEXT MONTH. LONDON February 2... 'The butter market is wonderfully strong. A total of 1G;..000 boxes of New Zealand and 57.000 of Australian arrived this week, and practically all sold. The demand is partly speculative in view ol an expected shortage in March and early ill April. Latest quotations are: New Z. a land choicest. 200/ to 212/, compared with 106/ to 108/ last week: unsalted •lVi/ to 214/, compared with 200/ tc 202/. Australia is _tY>/ to 204/. uusalte. 204/ to 20(1/. Danish is 224/. as againsi to 208/. and Argentine 10(1/ to 10 . compared with 180/ to 184/ last week. Cheese is very firm, as stocks an short. New Zealand white i« quoted al 182/ to 134/. compared with 120/ t( 128/: coloured, 134/ to 136/. as u K ainsl 128/ to 130/.- I A. and N.Z. (able.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 7
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147KEEN DEMAND FOR BUTTER. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 7
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