Dairy Produce at Home

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 136, 11 June 1936, Page 4

Dairy Produce at Home

BUTTER AND CHEESE BOTH , QUIET IMPROVED PRICES HOLD • The New Zealand Producers’ Co-op-erative .Marketing Association lias received from its London oftico the fol lowing cablegram; — The New. Zealaud butter market is quiet at 312 s per cwt. Danish is 120 s. The New Zealand cheese market is quiet. White and coloured are quoted at 61s Gd to 62s per cwt. COMPARATIVE PRICES Prices of New Zealand butter and cheese in tho United Kingdom yesterday and at this time last year compare as follow: — June 9,1936. June 5,190 u Per cwt. Per cwt. Butter .. .. H2s 83s Cheese .. .. 61s 6d I3s Prospects of production in Australia arc not bright at the moment, and this fact together with the shortage of supplies of both butter and cheese held in tho United Kingdom as shown in the Dairy Board’s cablegram may account for tho present strong market position for these goods. From cabled information received by tho Dairy Board on Saturday it was learned that good rains had fallen in tho New South Wales and Victoria dairy districts, but the weather was cold and . unfavourabo to dairy stock, and no appreciable increase in production was expected for several weeks. Prospects in Queensland were unfavourable and pioduction was at a low level. The Stock Position The Dairy Board has received cable advice from London reporting the following stock position as to both butter and cheese at Juno 1, this year ' and last:—. June 1,1936. June 1,1933 Tons. Tons.

All butters in United Iv. 21,GG-4 00,7G0 Cheese, Australian and ]ST.Z 0,700 13,043 Cheese, Canadian .. .. 2,443 2,355 Total .... 32,143 18,000 Butter From Japan LONDON MARKET REPORT Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., London, May 5, in reporting to their Wellington house, remarked that “A very interesting incident happened this week in the butter trade by the receipt in

London of the first shipment of butter from Japan. The parcel was of 50 tons. Through a broker we purchased 100 boxes of this parcel, for which we paid Sis on a New Zealand market of S7s to BSs. Wo inspected the samples of this butter in the warehouse. As to the butter itself, it was packed in what looked like some Siberian wood that had been treated with wax. The boxes were like the Australian box—that is, cubic instead of oblong like the New Zealand packing. Thinner parchment paper—which appeared to bo of good quality—had also been treated with wax.

“Tho butter was of splendid body. The flavour was quite good though not creamy and. nutty, and was inclined to be a little bitter on the tongue. The moisturo was 1G per cent. It was a very, good butter for blending purposes—good value at S4s.

“Like ourselves ail the butter inspectors thought that the texture of the butter was somewhat akin to Siberian, make. What puzzled us .was, unless this was early-season make of the present season—that is Northern Hemisphere season—just what would be the ago of the butter and by what route had it reached England. " “It is a strange development in the butter trado that when Australia and New Zealand should bo endeavouring to work up a trade in the East for butter Japan should be sending supplies to this free import market of England. One wonders whether Japan, like tho other 22 countries now sending butter here, is trying to establish a quota right.

“As we said before, it is a butter that will be useful to blenders as Siberian, and the latter butter is one of the most sought after for that purpose. The butter on the outside of the boxes was not marked ‘Mado in Japan,’ but simply ‘Foreign Make’ of creamery butter, 'sGlb net.’ ”