BUTTER AND CHEESE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3249, 20 January 1926, Page 9

BUTTER AND CHEESE

I High Commissioner’s Cable The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram dated the 16th. instant from the" High Commissioner for New Zealand, London: — Butter: —Market firm. Official quotations are: New Zealand, finest salted 16th. Jan. 174/- to 176/- per cwt., Uth. Jan. 168/- to 172/- per cwt.; unsalted, 16th. Jan. 178/- per cwt., 9th. Jan, 172/- to 174/- per cwt.; other qualities 16th. Jan. 166/- to 170/- per cwt. Australian; Salted 16th. Jan. 162/- to 166/- per cwt.; exceptional (16th) 168/- per cwt; unsalted 16th. Jan. 164/- to 170/- per cwt.; other qualities salted 10th. Jan. 140/- to 160/- per cwt; unsalted 16th. Jan. 140/- to 156/- per cwt. Argentine:

Unsalted 16th. Jan. 150/- to 154/per cwt.; exceptional 156/- per cwt.; ocher 1 qualities, 16th. Jan. 140/- to 148/- per cwt. Siberian: 16th. Jan. 140/- to 148/- per-ewt. Danish: 16th Jan. 178/- to 180/- per cwt. Cheese: Colonial firm. English Finest Farmers’ unchanged. Official quotations are: —Canadian: Finest coloured and white 16th. Jan., 106/- to 108/- Per cwt.; exceptional (coloured) 110/- per cwt. New Zealand: Coloured 16th. Jan. 104/- per cwt; white 16th. Jan. 100/- to 102/- per cwt. Shipments of New Zealand produce arrived this? week per s.s. Port Darwin, Port Nicholson and Rotorua. Wool: Bradford market quiet but steady at last quotations. Hemp: Fair business has been done in Manila. "J" grade FebruaryAprll shipments sold at £47. Jan-uary-March quoted at £4B/10/-. Output last year 1,268,793 bales against 1,488,815 previous year. Stocks of manlla 81st. December, 165,522 bales, Great Britain 27,196, against 137,512 and 7,820. Sisal No. 1: Tanganyika January-Mnrch shipments value £45. New Zealand market quiet and steadier. Nominal quotation is for high points January-March shipments £4l fair £B7. ■ " Tallow: Spot market steadier -at lower prices. i