FALL IN PRICE OF BUTTER
The weekly cabled market report, London, 4th April, pf .the.New Zealand Producers Co-operative Marketing Association, is as follows:—The buttter market improved during ■■the early part of the weetc but has again fallen back'with a. slowdemandi ' The retail price has been reduced to Is 6d per lb, which ehould create a demand and clear present accumulation. W-day's prices: New' Zealand creamery 150s to 1525; whey, 120s' to 1365; Australian, 140s to 1425; inferior, 116s to 120s; Argentine 134s to 138s, inferior 118s to 1225; Dutch, 160s to 166s:' Banish, 166 a. '.Uicese.—Very little demand; owing to cold weather, expect better demand when weather : improves. • Present, stocks New Zealand cheese held off market,- ICO,OOO crates. ■• Last season same date, total stocks 16,000 crates. Canadian new season s now being offered ati7Bs, '•' Increased, supply English ana Scotch mako now coming on market. Cheese at present afloat from New Zealand 200,000 crates, if factories holding cheese off market release simultaneously, will break market badly; ..To-day's prices: New Zealand, both coloured and white/84s to 86s; English factory, 763; to 84s . "
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 83, 7 April 1924, Page 8
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180FALL IN PRICE OF BUTTER Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 83, 7 April 1924, Page 8
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