THE BUTTER FIGHT. NEW ZEALAND ON TOP.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 8

THE BUTTER FIGHT. NEW ZEALAND ON TOP.

DANISH BEATEN AT LAST. Mr J. Muir, of the firm of Nathan and Co., has received cable advices from London lhal the whole shipment of butter by the steamer Tongariro — which left Wellington on 19th December last — met a buoyant market ( and realised tho highest prices over given for New Zealand butter in England. It brought 130s a hundredweight, which i 3 set down as being three shillings a hundredweight higher than the .present quotation for best Danish butter. It is anticipated that iho Hiirh Commissioner for Now ZcaImJ will confirm this report by official ca'j "gram. Anothei firm, which doe 3an extensive b'l'tur-oxnort business from Wellington, recoived cable advices to-day which say ihut. Now Zealand and Danish butter sold i» th? Lciidon market this week at equal price. I—vi<,1 — vi<, 130s per hundredweight. The prices qi.Cit ! constitutes a lccord /or New Z-jalaml Letter. The best quotations from la-sl. seasrn ranged between 118s and 12U* Tho Dfpnnmenl of Industries has rocp'vjJ enl/ie advices which place the price of tho Tonga riro's shipment at ISO's per [ueidrrdvcijtiir and add (hat this price is in advance of that commanded by the best Danish at present. For the last few years Danish has ruled three or four shillings per hundredweight dearer than rho New Zealand article. The returns rt-jlised for the Tongariro's shipment are tho more remarkable for the reason thai, it was probably the heaviest consignment of butter Ihnt ever left New Zealand in one vessel. The total came to over forty-soven thousand boxes, of which nearly twelve thousand were from Wellington district. The list of hoses sent from the centres is appended: — ; - Bo\cs. ' Auckland 14,269 Now Plymouth .... . . 12,256 Pntoa 4,638 Wellington 11,967 Lvt/citnn 2,017 Dunedin 2,341 7a addition to these, there woro 15,024 packager, of cheese in tho Tongariro's cargo. V>n< no adnVe as to tho price realised fo • tho cheo.so is obtainable. The pfico of 13(ls per hundredweight for butter, ia equal to a clear Is 2d per pound in New Zealand. !