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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 April 1926, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

DAIRY PRODUCE. HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CABLE. BUTTER QUIET; CHEESE SLOW. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated the 24th instant, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London : Butter. Market very quiet. Official quotations are: New Zealand. —Finest salted, 171 s to 172 s per cwt (Is 6;Jd to Is 6£d per lb) ; exceptional, 174 s per cwt (Is 6Jd); unsalted, 174 s to 176 s per cwt (Is 6£d to Is 6|d); other qualities, 146 sto 166 s per cwt (Is 3£d to Is sfd). Australian. —Salted, 168 s to 170 s up to 172 s (Is 6d to Is 6id to Is 6Jd); unsalted, 170 s to 172 s per cwt (Is 6Jd to Is 6Jd) ; other qualities, salted 150 s to 166 s per cwt (Is 4di to Is sfd), unsalted 160 s to 166 s per cwt (Is 5d to sid)Argentine.—Unsalted, 154 s to 160 s per cwt (Is 4Jd to Is sd); other qualities, 142 s to 152 s per cwt (Is 3d to Is 4id). Siberian. —156 s to 160 s per cwt (Is 4jd to Is s£d). Danish. —178 s per cwt (Is 7d). Cheese.

Colonial continues slow. Official quotations are: English.—Finest farmers’: Unchanged and steady. Canadian.—Finest coloured ana white, 106 s to 108 s per cwt (lljd to New Zealand. —Coloured, 92s to 94s per cwt (9§d to 10d.); white, 92s to 93s per cwt (9fd to lOd). Australain. —Coloured, 88s to 93s per cwt (9Jd to lOd). Shipment of New Zealand produce arrived this week per s.s. Norfolk. Casein. French rennet, £56 to £65; Argentine, £52.