AMERICAN MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1924, Page 7

AMERICAN MARKET

FOR DOMINION BUTTER

OPENING FOR OFF SEASON f

PRICES SAID TO BE EIGHT. \

(mna> pbbss association commght.) <WII»ALIAN-MW KAUHB CAH.I ASIOaATIOH.) VANCOUVER,' 23rd January! The Australian Press Association learns that the New York market is ready to absorb 300 cases o£ Australian aJid New Zealand butter at the present time, and that it will pay as high, as 1b 8d f.0.b.. ...'./ A produce dealer from Sydney recently cabled his New Zealand representatives offering is 6d per lb for 100,000 cases for the New York market, ■ bill he ■was unable to secure these. ; A correspondent also has teen informed' that an offer hao been made to purchase! 40,000 boxes of Australasian butter at Is'9d f.o.b. . , The Australian Commissioners-in1 the « J ork offi=e understand that tins offer has been transmitted to' Australia, lhe next 80 days represents the American off-season, when the Canadian: Scandinavian, Dutch, and Siberian butter W?,l? OJ. ts J C? ase' and- Australasian butter will %d the readiest market. • Dairy produce experts, moreover, maintain that Australasia could successfully create a profitable year-round butter market in America. It is stated that, despite B cents duty and a long haul, Australasian butter, 92 to 93 sdore, or better, would find an unlimited demand nere, successfully competing, against European and Canadian butter* throughout the year,.. ' . 6 A representative of the Duane Pro--2l Ci eonS, panyi Which !«t imported 120,000 cases of New Zealand butter, informed the correspondent that'th© lack of a direct line, with frequent^[regular sailings by refrigerated. sKipVbetween Australasia; and the United States, works against the establishment of an Australasian butter market' here. Me declared that n»ich Australasian butter was imported via London. He adyiw<T Australasia to concentrate upon the American market, which would be found highly profitable. : •Mr. Wilfiarn Taber, the foremost American authority upon dairy products, stressed the importance of Australasia shipping to America a constant BUPP'y °f highest-score butters, thus establishing a reputation, and at the same time securing the greatest revenue, for no country m the world was ready .to pay such high prices as America. • . -