DAIRY PRODUCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 May 1911, Page 3

DAIRY PRODUCE.

The quantity, of butter in store as on April 30, 40,724 boxes, 800 boxes more than/at the same date last .year, should be .reassuring?- ,tp those whp believed that this/ isou'rpe 4 of supply'for home consumption might be diminished, and prices, in cons^^aehce, rule high.* /As 'it- is (says 'tne'sWMlington Post) lijd per: 'lb;ha's been asked for arid par/:^r a well-known Taranaki factory's in; / : but. Auckland butter can be hau 10|d. .d:ui •.- The .cheese market has weakened, prices being 6d for both white arid colored. Locally the price is firm at s^djP§r : lb, at which price sales have been made/for export. Many of the ; South -T/sland^ factories' are- 'now closing dpw;n;jjthe export,season being over a.s fa.r 3 a they, are, cphcerne^d. The London market has certainly' been disappointing, this Reason.:.' _In these circumstances it may be interesting to quote from/the circular of the National Dairy Association.'dated ■• August 18 I last;, j It wa,s/:ppintfd;put ;that;,the differences between., iNew, Zealand. %nd Danish butter ' over a course of years was' als ;i fbllowsj; the1 figures being rpier

Considering., th^., high quality ..-of New Zea^Tid/buoe^''jt//was held that there should /)jpi[f 'be this Jereat difference in wioel' In order to Tiiinimise itj" the association confined" its output, to four 'agent's throtfgh Pne'leading^ firni'if agents. Tt"i:s i:ttnd«i*stobd that' the price .for. the. New,.Zealand butter, so dealt ■>vith durmcj^t^e./-season;. October to March, 1910-11. should be le|s than m the *f\me perjpd of 1909^10,. ft was proposed to \ ;spend. £3000 on advertising; New Zealand produce/ ■'?The High Commissioner's for the season OctobeT>'-.to March, ; 1910-11. show the position of.; $?yr f Zealand and Danish on the Lbhdori market to have been ,ai,,.fQHows. the prices per cwt given being rough average lor the "months':—

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s d "■ October .'• t S^UM-U8,*,j Q November Ill 0 December ii-i u:-;:uz -J08 Q •;• January ... "... 106 0 February ... v;<j ;,.1<)5 0 March ... ... "'**.: "'166' 6 Danish. s d 117 0 116 0 116 0 115 0 120 0 118 6