DAIRY BOARD BUSINESS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 12

DAIRY BOARD BUSINESS

RECORD BUTTER OUTPUT

EXPECTED

Allocation of space for shipments of dairy produce during the next three months to the United Kingdom and elsewhere were considered by the Dairy Board at its meeting yesterday. Mr. W. A. lorns, chairman, presided over a full board. The board saw indications that the production of butter this season may constitute a record; although there may be a slight fall-ing-off in the output of cheese.

The board . xprcssed its particular interest in the addresses on the quality o£ cheese and butter exported by New Zealand that have been delivered by Mr. W M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture, as a result of his recent investigations in Canada and the United Kingdom. Mr. Singleton has been addressing meetings of dairy farmers in various parts of the North Island and answering questions put relative to points raised in his address. It was hoped that when the board meets in January Mr. Singleton will attend and discuss with the board the various matters arising out of his investigations. The report of the advertising manager for the board in Great Britain was received, and it indicated that good progress was being made in pushing the sale of New Zealand butter and cheese in various important centres of population in the United Kingdom.

The board discussed the problem of quick discharge of dairy produce graded to the end of October. Its aim is to have a steamer leaving New Zealand the first week in November in order to arrive Home in good time for the Christmas trade; but, due to bad weather conditions, the departure of this vessel was delayed until 19th November, and will not be due to reach London until the 19th or 20th of December, and therefore may not be in time to reap the full benefits of the Christinas demand for hew season's New Zealand produce. It is the intention of the chairman and secretary (Mr. T. C. Brash) to visit Invereargill and Dunedin in connection with dairy affairs in Southland and Otago.

Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., have received the following report from Messrs. Trengrouse and Nathan, Ltd., London, dated 4th December:—"New Zealand butter, 166s per cwt; market quiet. New Zealand cheese, white 92s per cwt, coloured 90s per cwt; market weak." The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has received the following advice from their London house, dated 4th December:—"Dairy produce (last week's figures in parentheses): Butter, New Zealand choicest salted, new season, 166s per cwt (168 to 170s); market steady. Cheese, white 92s per ewt (955), coloured 90s per cwt (92s to 93s per cwt). The market is quiet."