SHEEP FOR WAIKATO

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 36, 26 January 1932, Page 9

SHEEP FOR WAIKATO

MANY CANCELLATIONS IN POVERTY BAY. From 30,000 to 40,000 store sheep mainly breeding ewes, have been dispatched from Gisborne for the Waikato up to the present, but it is reported that not nearly so many as was recently anticipated will be sent forward. The prices in the Waikato are not up to expectations, and leave little room for the payment of expenses incurred in droving fees above the Matawhero rates. The result has been that some of the farmers who intended dispatching lines northwards have cancelled their arrangements. Waikato reports indicate that fiveyear breeding ewes should be worth from 6/- to 7/- with four-year-olds about 8/- or 9/-. A number of sheepfarmers prefer Waikato bred sheep, and it was anticipated that these would sell at a premium oyer those from the Gisborne district.—P.B. “Herald.” GREAT BRITAIN EATS MORL BUTTER MARKETING BOARD’S REPORT. Lower prices for butter appear to have had the effect of increasing its consumption in the industrial districts of Great Britain, to judge by the latest report of the economic section of the Empire Marketing Board. In November, 1926, the board had carried out a survey of the retail demand for blitter in Stoke-on-Trent, Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, and Loughgorough, and two year’s later, m view of the sharp fall in the price of the commodity that had occurred in the interval, the survey was repeated. It was found that retail prices in the shops fell by about 6d a lb. Over the same period the total weekly sales of butter rose from 423 cwt. to 473 cwt., an increase of 12 per cent., the proportion of the Empire to total sales rose from 28 per cent, to 36 per cent. Sales in each of the 152 shops visited rose by 331 b. a week. There was a considerable drop in the sales of Siberian butter, largely because comparatively little Russian butter was imported in 1930. The number of shops stocking Irish Free State butter increased, although the consumption fell. The most striking change occurred in the case of New Zealand butter, which was found in nearly twice as many simps In 1930 as in 1928. Danish butter still held the lead, with 37 per eent. of the total in 1928 and 36 per cent, in 1930. New Zealand’s percentage rose from 11 to 23.