DEMAND FOR BUTTER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 260, 3 October 1932, Page 7

DEMAND FOR BUTTER

SCARCITY IN FRANCE. PROSPECTS FOR DOMINION SUPPLIES.. DANISH EXPERIMENT ON BRITISH MARKET. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 3, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 1.

France’s abolition of the quota system for butter imports is expected to lead to the purchase of good quantities of Australian and New Zealand* for there is a great scarcity of butter in France, and the retail price there has been as high as 3s 6d per pound so, although the abolition of the quota system has been accomplished by an increased duty on Australian and New Zealand to Is 6d per pound, the French consumers will be able to buy the commodity in the vicinity of 2s 6d. It is therefore, not unreasonable to expect a good demand in the near future.

An interesting development in the butter trade is that the Danes contemplate following the example of Australia and New Zealand in putting butter in packets on the British market. According to the Copenhagen newspaper Politiken, two representatives of Danish firms visited London with a great wholesale firm,"“which for some time lias been packing New Zealand butter in cartons, to commence packing Danish butter similarly. The experiment needs the sanction of the Ministry of Agriculture in Denmark. When this is given operations will commence, possibly within two months.

Traders here do not regard the experiment as likely to have a serious effect on the sale of Australian and New Zealand butter. They remember that some 40 years ago a big multiple firm started selling Danish butter in cartons, but owing to its non-success abandoned the system after only a few months.

A former messago relating to the removal of the French abolition of the quota system appears on page 5.