DAIRY EXPORT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 16

DAIRY EXPORT TRADE

THE BUTTER MARKET

CHEESE POSITION STEADY

: The Daily Board weekly cabled report of tlic market at close of business in Lon'don'on Thursday evening is to the efVeet that' the-•butter' lharket is "steady." Danish butter .is easier in price, since last week, and its retail price is expected -to. bo reduced Id per Hi in the, northern distributing districts next -Prices 'for'butter at'close of* business were as follows: — ... ' . .. ', .' ; Butter. . ::. ' Per cwt.' ' , New Zealand, salt ..-.. 77s to 79s : " New Zealand, imsalted 70s to S2s ; ■ ■Danish-, spot •..-.•.. -86s to 88s ; Australian, salt ...... 76s to 78s ; ■ Australian,* unsirltcd .■.. 77s to 78s ! Exceptional lines-of New. Zealand salted butter,,make, up. to 80s.; : ; • i ' Pricps. for unsalted 'butters are: Dutch ■butters, 88s to 945; Latvian, 76s to 775; Lithuanian, 765; all iii that order. ■ ■ Stocjks of .New Zealand ami' Australian butters 1 a'ro reported as follows:—1 • Butter May 26, May 2G, Stocks. '.. . . 1933. - 1932. : New Zealand,.tons ;.: 9400 '5200 Australian,'tons' .. 4800 .1175 ' Tons ...: 14,200 C 375 The'board Ms also received tho following cable advice from its agents in Can-' ada, relative to wholesale prices'of butter as follows":—"Butter,' New York 22 cents, Montreal 18% cents." Cheese is described as n steady market •with no change in retail prices.; Prices were quoted as follows:— Cheese. Per cwt. : i-Kew Zealand, white 47s<to 4Ss . New Zealand, coolured 53s to 54s ■Canadian, white ...... 66s to 68s . .Canadian, coloured ... 66s to 68s The -c.ii. price for Canadian new; scajson's cheese (coloiired only) js 535. ; Stocks o-f New Zealand and Canadian cheese',at May 26 compare us follows:— Cheese May 26, May 26, Stocks. 1933. ,19^2. ' New Zealand, crates . 117.836 " .73",343: Canadian, boxes .... 64,500 ''. 76,000..

Dalgety and Co. have - received' from Samuel Page and Son, London,- May 25, the following cablegram:—"Butter.—Markef slow. Danish, 86s to 90s (94s to 965); New Zealand, finest salted,. 77s ,to 79s (79s to 80s); Australian; finest' unsalted, 77s to 79s (77s to 80s); Australian, finest salted, 76s to 78s. (77s to 70s); Australian, G.A.Q., 73s to 75s J73s to 765). Cheese.—Market quiet. New, Zealand, white, 47s (48s); New Zealand; coloured; 53s to 54s (53s to 54s);' Canadian, white, 66s to 70s (64s to 70s);. Canadian,1 coloured, 66s to 70s (64s to 725). Last week's quotations are shown in parentheses."