N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 14 May 1935, Page 11

N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE

Butter Prices Steady CHEESE UNCHANGED The London butter market remained steady last week, prices for New Zealand salted remaining unaltered at 77/. to 78/ a cwt. Deliveries of New Zealand butter last week totalled 1920 tons, compared in 1936 tons for the previous week and 2489 tons a year ago. Australian deliveries totalled 3122 tons against 1614 tons a year ago. New Zealand butter in store now totals 6540 tons, including 603 tons ex Tamaroa and Taranaki, compared with 6257 tons for the previous week and 10,481 tons a year ago. Australian stored butter amounts to 7353 tons, against 6243 tons for the previous week and 7699 tons a year ago. London advices to the Dairy Board state that 160 tons of butter were shipped from London to New York last week. The board has also received the following advice from its agents in Canada: Butter; New York, 28J cents a lb. ; Montreal, 21J cents., Canadian stocks, 1950 tons, against 110 tons last year. The cheese market was steady last week, prices remaining practically unchanged. Deliveries of New Zealand cheese last week totalled 19,264 crates, against 21,215 crates a year ago, while the quantity in store was 170,986 crates, including 12,790 crates ex Port Auckland, Sultan Star, and Tamaroa, against 138,477 crates a year ago. Canadian deliveries totalled 3809 boxes against 6975 boxes a year ago, and the quantity in store was 66,653 boxes against 95,451 boxes a year ago. The Dairy Board’s London office reports last week’s closing quotations as follow, those for the previous week being shown in parentheses:— BUTTER. New Zealand, salted, 77/- to 78/(78/- to 79/-; May 10, 1934, 75/- to 76/-); unsalted, 79/- to 80/- (79/- to 80/-; May 10, 1934, 76/- to 77/-); (77/to 78/- equals approximately 8.89 d. f.0.b.). Australian, salted, 75/- to 76/- (75/to 76/-); unsalted, 76/- (-75/- to 76/-). South African, salted, 69/- to 71/(71/-). Argentine, unsalted, 72/- to 74/- (72/to 74/-). Danish, 67/- f.0.b., 89/- spot (69/to 70/-, 90/-). Dutch, unsalted, 69/- to 77/- (70/- to 77/-). salted, 69/- to 71/- (70/- to Lithuanian, unsalted, 72/- to 74/ex. 75/- (73/- to 74/-). Ukranian, salted, 68/- to 70/-. CHEESE. New Zealand, white, 43/6 | o 44 - (4.6 d f.0.b.), (43/- to 44/-; May 10, 1934, 44'6 to 45,'-); coloured, 44/6 to 15 - <4.73d. f.0.b.-, (44/6 to 45-: Mav 10. 1934 , 44.-‘. •Australian, white and coloured. |O/_ to 43/-. Canadian, white and coloured, 61/to 62/- (60/- to 62/-). English, finest farmers’, 82/. to 90/(82/- to 90'-).