LONDON MARKETS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 July 1923, Page 3

LONDON MARKETS.

I The English dockers' strike has caus ed the prices of New Zealand butter cheese, and frozen meat to advance j When the strike is over the market i likely to be overstocked with butter am ' cheese and values will again recede. Tlv ! imports of both butter and cheese inti j the United Kingdom are increasing. Tlv ; imports of butter for the first fou i months of the year, compared with tin J figures for the corresponding period o last year, are as under: —

The European contribution increased by 188,369cwt.; the -United States sen* 9690c\vt. more; Argentine supplies increased by 25,400cwt.; and the increase from New Zealand was 71,503cwt. It is only from Australia that there have been decreased supplies, and the decrease in the four months amounts to 155.976cwt.

Vwt. 1922 Finland 21,361 ; Sweden 293 ■Denmark 401,321 ! Netherlands ... .6,782 •France 227 U.S.A " 10 Argentine- 133,201 Australia 542,254 New Zealand 502,573 j Canada • Other countries 22,634 Uwt. 1923 47,47! 25,73: 524,84' 15,60' 4.,68: 9,70* 208,60: 386^27! 574,07< 31,681 1,680,656. 1,828,94*