DAIRY MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 14

DAIRY MARKETS

DANES TO REDUCE PRICE

The Dairy Board is advised by cablegram from London to-day that New Zealand butter prices arc 81s to 82s and occasionally 83s for exceptional quality. Danish spot prices are 104s to IOSs. The butter market is reported as slow. The New Zealand price of 81s to 82s per cwt is "equal to 8 l-8d per pound free on board in New Zealand. The retail price for New Zealand butter is lid per lb, as last week. The board is also advised that the Danes propose to reduce their retail price next week to Is Id per lb in general, but to Is per lb in the North of England, their stronghold. The Empire Marketing Board's estimate of ; stocks of all butters in the United Kingdom is 364,000 boxes, compared with 589,538 boxes at this time last year. The white cheese market is still depressed at. 48s to 49s for New Zealand, but coloured cheese is quoted at 56s to 575, as last week. '. New Zealand retail price is 7d per lb for white, and 8d for coloured. The cheese market is firmer at the end of this week. Messrs. S. Page and Son advise Dalgety and Co., under date London, 13th January, as follows:—"Danish butter 106s, New Zealand 80s to 82s, Australian 79s to 81s."