DAIRY PRODUCE
LONDON MARKET FIRM
The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board has received its weekly cable from London, dated February 23, advising that the butter market is firm with the retail prices unchanged. Wholesale quotations are:—New Zealand, salted and unsalted, 72s to 73s per cwt (which equals approximately 8.29 d per lb, f.0.b.); Australian, salted, 70s; Danish, spot, 100s. The butter stock position is as follows: Feb. 23, Feb. 23, 1934. 1933. XT rr , , T°llS- T °"S. New Zealand 7290 -" 6748 Australian 7087 The Imperial Economic Committee's estimated stocks of all butters comprise 750,000 boxes, compared with 819,799 at the same time last year. . The cheese market is also firm, with the retail prices unchanged. Wholesale quotations are:—New Zealand, white, 44s to i 44s 6d per cwt (which equals approxiI mately 4.65 d per lb, f.0.b.); coloured, 46s 6d to 475; Canadian, white and coloured, 52s to 545; English .finest fanners', 90s to 945.
The board has also received the following advice from its agents in Canada:— 'Butter, New York, 26 cents: Montreal 29Vi cents." ■
Samuel Page and Son report under <3ate of February 22:—Butter: Market .firm. Danish, 94s per cwt (90s); New Zealand finest salted, 71s t0.73s (68s to 70s); Australian finest unsalted, 69s to 70s (64s to 68s); Australian', finest salted, 68s to 70s (64s to 665); Australian G.A.Q., 64s to 66s (60s to 625). Cheese: Market firm. New Zealand white,-. 44s per ■ cwt (43s to 43s 6d); New Zealand coloured, 46s to 47s (46s to 46s 6d); spot price, for Canadian, white 50s'to 54s (50s to 545), coloured 50s to 54s (50s to 545). (Last week's quotations are shown in parentheses.) j The New Zealand- Producers' Co-opera-tive Marketing Association's weekly cabled market report from London is as follows:— Butter: Market firm. New Zealand,; finest grade. 72s to 73s per cwt;,first grade, 725; Danish, 100s. ■;..,< .
Cheese: Market firm. New Zealand, ■white 44s per cwt, coloured 46s 6d. A. S.. Paterson and C 0. ,: Ltd., report that they have; received cable advice from •T. and >J.- Lons,dal'e, and, Co. (London), Ltd., as follows:— Butter: Market firm. Danish, 79s,per ciyt; f.0.b., ,100s landed; New Zealand, 735: Australian,'7os. Cheese: Market steady. White, 44s per cwt; coloured, 46s 6d." '.'.■ i-
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 16
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368DAIRY PRODUCE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 16
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