DEMAND FOR BUTTER

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 7

DEMAND FOR BUTTER

Scarcity in France PROSPECTS FOR NEW ZEALAND SUPPLIES A DANISH EXPERIMENT ON THE BRITISH MARKET (Aust. unci N.Z. Cable. | London; Dot. 1. France's abolition of the quota system for butter Imports Is expected to lead to tlie purchase of good quantities from Australia and New Zealand for there is a great scarcity of butter in France and the retail price is 3s ii.l per lb. so, although the abolition of the quota system has lien accomplished by nu increased duty on Australian and New Zealand to Is (id per lb, the French consumers will lie able to buy the commodity in the region of 11s 61. It is therefore not unreasonable to expect a good demand in the near future. DANISH I >EVEL( IPMENT An interesting development in the butter trade is that the Danes contemplate following the example of Australia and New Zealand in putting butter in packets on the British market. According to the Copenhagen newspaper Polttiken, two representatives of Danish firms visited London and arranged with a great wholesale firm, which for some time had been packing New Zealand Hitter in cartons, to commence packing Danish butter similarly. The experiments needs tlie sanction of the Ministry of Agriculture in Denmark. When this is given operations will commence, possibly within two months. NOT SERIOUS Traders here do not regard the experiment as likely to have li serious effect on the sale of Australian and Now Zealand butter. They remember that some 40 years ago a big multiple linn started selling Danish lad ter in cartons, hut owing to its non-success abandoned (lie system after only a few months.