DAIRY ADVANCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 297, 16 December 1935, Page 4

DAIRY ADVANCES.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANY. BIG CHRISTMAS BONUS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, Sunday. For November supplies the Cambridge Co-op. Daily Co. will pay 9%d per lb butterfat for butter making and lOd for cheese manufacture. The final bonus for butter and cheese was also made, the payment over the whole season being .806 d per lb for butter and 1.033 d per lb for cheese, the total payment for the season being 10.24 d for cheese and 10.123 d for butter. The total payout amounted to £40,000, £23,000 for November supplies and £17,000 for bonuses. BRITISH STOCK POSITION. A review issued by A. 11. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., agents for W? Weddel and Co., Ltd., stated that the stock position in London is still strong as _ compared with last year, but the quantities in store are] practically equal to the quantities at the | same period in 1933. The following table shows the estimated j arrivals of New Zealand produce, in tons, for December, January and February, compared with actual arrivals in the corresponding months of previous years:— BUTTER (tons). . 1933-34. 1934-35. 1935-36. December .... 12,473 12,173 18,175 January 10,112 13,370 13,636 February .... 13,819 14,481 13.525 Total (tons) 42,404 40,024 45,636 CIIEKSI3 (tons). 1933-34. 1934-35. 1935-30. December .... 7,420 7,917 8,746 January 12,558 10,607 9,764 February .... 10,343 10,601 8,657 Total (tons) 30,321 29.155 27,167 Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co. have received the following cable from their London principals, Messrs. Trengrouse and Nathan, Tooley Street, dated December 14:—Butter: 88/ per cwt. Cheese: White, 52/6 per cwt; coloured, 50/. Both markets quiet but firm.