DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 1 May 1934, Page 8

DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS

BOARD’S- WEEKLY REVIEW. There was very little change in the London butter market last week. I rlct U closed steady, with indications of slightly more activity. Deliveries ot New Zealand butter were I< 00 tons, compared with 2250 tons during tne previous week. .The: quantity ot i Zealand butter in store was 10, <9l tons compared with 9863 tons for the previous week, and 8120 tons a. year ago The cheese market closed quiet, puces being; slightly firmer on the week. The Dairy Board’s; Loncfon office reports Friday’s official closing Quotations as follow, those for the previous week being shown m parentheses: BUTTER. New Zealand, .salted, 70s to tlx (70s, April 27, 1933 , 68s to 70s) ; ios to 71s equals approximately B.hod 1.0. b. Unsalted. 71s to 74s (71s to <2s ; April 97, 1933, 68s to 70s). Deliveries New Zealand. 1700 tons. In store. 10, (91 tons, includes 365 tons ex lonic and Australian, salted, 69s to 70s (695. to 70s) • unsalted, 70s (70s). Deliveries. Australian. 1841 tons. In store, 6930 tons. Argentine, unsalted, 10s (<(>s). South Africa, salted, 66s to 68s. Danish. 60s f.0.b., 82 s spot (oßs, 82s). Dutch, unsalted, 69s to 77s (69s to 775). Esthonian unsalted. 69 (70s). Latvian, salted and unsalted, 68s to Siberian, salted, 67-s to 68s (6Ss). Lithuanian, salted, 68s to \69s (69s to 70s) • unsalted, 68s to. 70s (<os). The board has also received the following advice from its agents in Canada: Butter; New York, 24.\ cents; Montreal, 22 cents a lb. CHEESE. New Zealand, white, 42s 6d to 43a (4kl f.0.b.) (42s to 42s 6d; April 27, 1933, 38s Ao 395);- coloured, 425; ex. 42s 6d (4.4 d f.0.b.) (41s 6(1 to 425, April 27. 1933, 43s to 445). Deliveries ■>w Zcaalnd 21,541 crates. In store New Zealand, 135.340 crates, includes 10.8C0 crates as Ruahrne. Australian, coloured. 425. Canadian, white and coloured, 52 to 56 (52s to 565). Deliveries, Canadian 5001 boxes. In -store, 106,858 boxes. AUSTRALIAN MINIMUM PRICES. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board is advised bv the Australian board that .if has fixed the minimum prices at which Australian butter may be sold for forward shipment to the United Kingdom during the coming week at 8 5-8 d and 8 3-Bd, this being the same as for the previous week These nr ices are New Zealand f.o.b. equivalent of • the Australian c.i.f.e. minimum prices fixed.