DAIRY PRODUCE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE

BUTTER PRICES. NEW ZEALAND BEATS QUEENSLAND. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT (Received July 26, 9.10 a.ni.) LONDON, July 25. Mr Robert Joyce, who has been enquiring why New Zealand butter is higher priced on the London market than . Queensland butter, asserts that this is primarily due to habit. There is little difference in the actual value of the best Queensland and New Zealand butters. One detrimental characteristic of Australian butter is its extremely solid texture, niaking spreading difficult, and it is thus not acceptable for the restaurant or domestic trade but it is acceptable to blenders. Further, as Queensland butter is available on the British market only six months of the year, it is therefore useless for any British house to specialise in it, while New Zealand butter is available longer.—Sydney Sun Cables. NEW ZEALAND CHEESE. ORDER BY QUEEN OF SPAIN. - (Received July 26, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. The Queen of Spain was so pleased with the New Zealand cheese she tasted at Wembley that she has ordered a crate to be sent to Madrid.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. ? CHEESE PRICES TENDING DOWNWARD. (Received July 26, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. Butter is quietly steady at. late rates. Cheese is dull and tending easier., LONDON REPORT. Mr Geo. H. Buckeridge has received the following cable message from Messrs Lane and Co., London: “New Zealand butter market quiet, with no alteration m price. New Zealand; cheese steadier ; white 90s to 925, coloured 86s do 88s.”