BUTTER AND CHEESE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 12

BUTTER AND CHEESE

MARKETS IMPROVING

London butter and cheese markets are wearing a brighter complexion this week compared with conditions of the past two months. The Dairy Board reports to 10th July a 9 follows:—

"Butter market firm. New Zealand retail price Is 2d per lb; Danish butter Is 3d per lb. "Cheese market firm. New Zealand retail price 8d per lb." Current prices for New Zealand salted were 113s to 115s per cwt, an advance of 2s per cwt on the week. Unsalted 114s ti> USs per cwt. Other prices were as follow:—

Butter, Per cwt. Danish, spot 121^}'? n s Australian , 107s\Hn S l&thonian ~..-. 8 Latvian 10Ss-110 S Siberian ••• OjWßs Polish 9°a- 96s All the above are salted butters. Prices for unsalted are: New Zealand, 114s to 118s; Australian, 108s-112s; Argentine, 108s-112s; Dutch, 122s to 1245; Latvian, 106s-112s; Eathonian, 108s to 112s; Polish, 06a to 98s. Arrivals of Canadian butter, -were SSOO boxes, with 7400 boxes expected this week. Cheese prices are better for the week by 3s to 4s per cwt for New Zealand, and prices-were as follow: — Cheese. Per cwt. New Zealand, white 5Ss-60d New Zealand, coloured Gls-63s Australian, white .:.............. 58s Australian, coloured .......... 60s Canadian,, white »„ 68s-74s Canadian, coloured 68s-74s Canadian, this season 5Ss-G2s English finest farmers' cheese, this season's make, 70s to 7os per cwt. Stocks at 10th July this year and last compare as under:— . 10th 10th July, July, 1931. i 1930. New Zealand butter, tons 5,525 H-,158 Australian, tons 3,150 2,925 N.Z. cheese, crates 148,185 130,669 Canadian, boxes ..:..... 130,000 114,799 Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., have received the following market report from Messrs. Trengrouse and Nathan, Ltd., London, dated 11th July:—"New Zealand butter, 115s per cwt. New Zealand cheese, white 59s to 60s per ewt, coloured 61s1 to 625; both markets firm." The New Zealand Producers' Co-opera-tive Marketing Association's weekly cabled market report from London, dated 10th July, is as follows:—"Butter: Market firm. New Zealand, 113s to 115s, unsalted 114s to 118s; Danish, 121s to 1225; Siberian, 94s to 98;*. Cheese: Market firm. New Zealand,'white 58s to 60s, coloured 61s to 625; Canadian, old season's, white and coloured, 68s to 745; new season's white 58s, coloured 59s to 625."