BELOW PRE-WAR

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 12

BELOW PRE-WAR

THE PRICE OF BUTTER

Quotations of: the price of New Zealanjl salted butter in London at the end of last week as cabled to the Dairy Board and the, New Zealand Co-operative Producei's Marketing Assoqiation arc-IOSs to 110^, unsalted 150s to 1545, a fall of 2s per cwt on this butter on the week. ■ Australian salted is IOBs to 110s, and unsalted 126s to 130s, ancl Argentine is the same priqe, but-for exceptional lines 114 a is commandr cd.' Danish "spot"..prices aro 140s H.o 1445, a .weaker market. It is interestijig to 'compare the '.average prices of New Zealand and Danish butter in London 'for years prior to the war with those current to-day, the authority being -VVeddeh—

/New Zealand cheese is in rather better casein the comparison; the average price in. 1910 was 58s. 9d per cwt; Canadian, 60s I 6d; and the average price for ten years ended 30th June, 1914, was: New Zealand 61s lid per cwt, Canadian 62s 6d. To-day the prices-compare as follows: — . ■ . Per cwt, ShiUlugs. New Zealand white 73 to 76 New Zealand coloured G9 to 71 Canadian white 76.t0 78 ■ Canadianl coloured >.. 7G to 7S 'The Dairy Board advises that the butter: market ;-,is steady, retail prices for, New Zealand standing at Is 4d per pound, and for Danish reduced to "Is sd. The cheese market is also reported steady, a report confirmed by the Marketing Association- and Dalgety and Co. The retail price of New Zealand cheese is unclianged at'lOd to-lid per pound. . The board is also advised o£ tlie markets for- .Australian, .Argentine, Dutch, Siberian, Latvian, Polish, and Bsthonian butters. 'Latvian 'and Esthonian sajted are 6s and 2s respectively above New Zealand. Polish-is-selling, at.9os to 100s per cwt, and Siberiaty 100s t0.;1045. ' Stocks and' deliveries pf produce for tlie week compared with that ended 7th November last year, compare as follow: — SET?, ZEALAND BUTTER. • ' ' '■-.'■ .',' 1930. 1929. 'Deliveries, tons'-"':.'..' 1950 SBS ■ In store, tons ....... 4400 4030 , The Empire Marketing Board estimates stocks of-all butter'as at Ist November, 1930, to be equal to 613,645 boxes. ■ ; : citEESE. . New Zealand. Canadian. .-. ..Grates. - Boxes. 1930., 1929.. 1930. 1929. Deliveries ~ "12,858:"12,331 12,31G 18,942 StocifS • ."... ;40,e0a": 29,740 243,432 222,770 'English, farmers' cheese is quoted 100s to 106s per cwt.

Kcw Zealand. Danish. Per cnt. Per cwt. Average. s. d. s. d. -.1908-9... .« .111 D 118 3 1909-10' 115 5 122 2 1910-11 ...■ : 109 1 llli S 1911-12 125 8 132 2 1932-13 117 4 127 3 1913-14 .'.... US 3 125 2 Nov., 1930 112 0 141 0