LONDON BUTTER MARKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 7, 8 December 1930, Page 6

LONDON BUTTER MARKET.

There is a pleasing contrast between the cabled reports of the London butter market for November 27 and December 4. On the former occasion the m&rket was reported to be lifeless with New Zealand salted butter selling at 102 s to 104 s and 'Danish 1265. Friday’s cablegram, however, conveyed cheerful news of “rather more demand for butter,” New Zealand having risen 2s a cwt and Danish 4s, while Australian butter has also shared in the slight advance. It would be welcome news indeed for dairy farmers if this were the first definite step upward in the price movement towards stabilisation, giving producers a profitable return. When interviewed in London concerning conditions in New Zealand, the Prime Minister (Hon. G. W. Forbes) stated that commodity prices were now at their lowest, and the next movement must be upwards. A factor which may have been responsible for the somewhat improved demand is the movement of the New Zealand Butter Importers’ Association in London to advertise and urge the trade to “push the sale of Dominion butter.” There is still a wide margin in favour of the Danish producers, the reason for which, according to an address delivered last wefek by Mr W. Goodfellow, is their superior marketing methods, the Danes’ not being “competitive in the sense New Zealand’s is.”. He urges rationalising to. eliminate all unnecessary competition so as to secure to Dominion producers a fair market value for their goods.

The Niagara has arrived at Vancouver from Auckland.

“The instruction of children in the dangers of traffic has probably saved • many accidents,” said the chairman, Mr A. Burns, at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board, when a report of the instruction given m schools was received from the City Council. The numerous visitors to Foxton yesterday witnessed the novelty of an aeroplane landing on the broad beach, the tide being almost full out at the time. The machine was a Gipsy Moth, piloted by Mr Short, of Feilding and a passenger. After a brief interval the ’plane easily took off, and, making a northerly course, soon disappeared in the low-hanging clouds.

Among the “masks” of old identities of Wellington, which adorned the old hotel at the corner of Boulcott and Willis Streets, Wellington,' and which were referred to in the “Standard” a short time ago, one has been traced by Mrs J. W. Whittaker, Richardson’s Line, Palmerston North, as that of her grandfather, Mr Francis Jones, a business man of early Wellington.

Twenty-four of New Zealand’s native birds have been depicted by Miss L. A. Daff, of Wellington, in charts which 6he has prepared for the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society, and which will be reproduced for issue to tho schools in a few months. The charts are in natural colours, and on the back of each "will appear a description of the habits and peculiarities of the bird and its value. As the result of a meeting of trade unions held in Wanganui on Friday night to discuss unemployment in the city, a deputation waited on Hon. W. A. Veitch, Minister of Railways, on Saturday. After listening to the representations of the deputation, Mr Veitch stated that 50 men would be offered work on the Wanganui River Road and the Wangaehu Valley Road before the end of next week. In addition to that he had arranged with the Minister for Public Works, Hon. W. B. Taverner, to commence fairly big jobs round Wanganui.