PRICE OF BUTTER FALL ON THE WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 107, 9 May 1939, Page 12

PRICE OF BUTTER

FALL ON THE WEEK

RETAIL AT I' 2 PER LB

The Dairy Board, by arrangement with the Marketing Department, reports that at the close of business in London on Saturday the New Zealand butter market was slow, as it was for the week before. But the retail price for New Zealand butter was unchanged at ls 2d a lb; Danish, ls 3d. Prices quoted for salt butters, with those for the week before, were:— April 29. 3lay 6. I'i;r cwt. Vex cwt. Xew Zealand . 114/- to 11-V- IW- to 114/Australian .. 112/- to 11?./- 110/- to 111/Uanisli, spot . 126/- to 127/- 126/- to 12./----l'oli-li 107/- to .10!)/- 105/- to 107/South African - 103/- to 108/- 102/- to 106/Dutch 108/- to 100/- 105/- to 109/Unsalted butters were quoted: New Zealand, 117s to 118s; Australian, 113s to 114s; Dutch, 106s to 109s; Polish, 105s to 107s. The market for New Zealand cheese was slow, with the retail price unchanged at 8d per lb. Wholesale pfices for cheese compare as follows: — April 20. May 6. Per cwt. Per cwt. X.Z. white and coloured ... CO/- .00/Australiaii — ' „ . White .... 5-:/- to 56/- 01/- to oG/Coloured .. 53/- to oi/- »o/- to of/Canadian, white, and coloured If- to v/- il/- to i4- / old, coloured .. • 82/- S2/KnuMsh farmers' finest SS/- to IUO/- PS/- to 100/South African cheess, white and coloured, was quoted at 50s to 565.