LONDON DAIRY PRICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19838, 7 January 1928, Page 7

LONDON DAIRY PRICES.

BUTTER MARKET STEADY. NEW ZEALAND *6os TO, 1625. (Received January 6, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON, Jan. 6. The butter market is quietly steady. Choicest salted New Zealand is quoted at 160s to 1625; exceptionally fine, 1645; Australian, 158s to 160s. Unsalted butter is plentiful at about 2s premium only. The cheese market is quiet. New Zealand is quoted at 935, Australian 925. ADVICES TO AGENTS. QUIET MARKETS REPORTED. Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., report haviag received the following cablegram from their London manager, dated January 5: —Butter: Finest, 164sfirst grade, 1625. Market quiet, no demand. Danish, 174s f.o.b. Cheese: White, 945; coloured, 935. Market quiet; no demand; Canadian, 100s spot. Norden and Company, Ltd., received the following cablegram from their London agents, Andrew Clement and Sons, Ltd., dated January 5 :-r~Butter: Quiet at 160s to 162s (f.o.b. equivalent, Is 3.6 d); unsalted, 1665. Cheese: Quiel at 93s (f.o.b. equivalent, 8.36 d). The Kia Ora has arrived. W. W. Bowker has received the following cablegram from A. J. Mills and Company, Limited, London, dated December s:—Butter: The demand is slow at 160s to 1625. Cheese: The market is quiet; white, 93s to 945; coloured, 92s to 935. Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, dated January s: Butter: The market is quiet. New Zealand finest salted, 160s to 1645; Danish, 182s to 184s; Australian finest unsalted, 164s to 1665; salted, 156s to 160s; good average quality, 150s to 1545. Cheese: Market is quiet. New Zealand white and coloured, 92s to 945; Canadian white and coloured, 100s to 102s.

MARKET REPORTS. FRUIT AND PRODUCE PRICES. After the Christmas rush at the Auckland City Markets supply and dsmand are returning to normal proportions. Prices generally are much the same as they were before the holidays. Butter and eggs continue to decrease in value. Supplies of strawbprries are rapidly diminishing, and will probably be exhausted within a fortnight. "Tomatoes, both hothouse and outdoor, sold well at yesterday's sales, the ripe outdoor fruit bringing 2d per lb less than the best grown in the hothouse. Apricots brought excellent prices, ranging from 5s for small fruit to as much as 15s a ca3e foi the best. The better grades of plums were well received, but there was little demand for the poorer fruit. Except in the choicest lines, there was very little demand for apples, either dessert or cooking, Small apples would not sell at all. Repacked bananas brought up to 26s a case. Green peas rose in price at the field produce sales. Marrows, cucumbers and pumpkins also showed a tendency to rise, but other prices were much tne same. No cauliflowers were offered. Most lines were in heavy supplies, a fair demand being experienced. Supplies of eggs were again plentiful, but the demand was poor and prices fell slightly. Farriers' butter was offered in large supplies of lib pats and sold at reduced prices, bringing ll£d to Is Id per lb. The poultry market was quiet. Prime cockerels maintained their position, and drakes brought up to 5s each- Other prices showed little alteration. The following prices were realised:-

FRUIT, Apples.—Canadian Winesaps, 16s to 17s a case; Astrachan, choice coloured, 6s to 8s; small, 2s 6d to 4s; Gravenstein, 4s to 8s; cookers, 4s 6d to 7s 6d. • Strawberries: 9s to lis a case. Tomatoes: Hothouse, first grade, 8d to lOd lb; second grade, 6d to 8d; outdoor, ripe, 6Jd to 8d; green, 4d to 6d; small, 3d to 4d. Plums: Sultans, 6s to 10s a oase; Hale's Early, 5s 6d to 6s 6d; black plum 3, 6s to 7s; Kitcheners, Gs to 6s; Wright's Early, 5# to 6s 6d: Burbanks, 3s 6d to 7s. Apricots; Choice, 12s to J3s a ■case. Black Currants: 9s a box. Peaches: Choice coloured, 7s to 10s a case; others, 6s to 8s; Triumph, 5s to 6s; cooking, 5s to 6s 6d. Lemons: 15s to 26s a case. Gooseberries: 2s 6d to 6s a case. Grapes: Hothouse, Is 9d to 2s 6d per lb. Bananas; Repacked, 24s to 26s a case. FIELD PRODUCE. Potatoes.—Best grades, 6s to 8s a bag; inferior, 5s to 6s 6d; pumpkins, new season's, 15s to 16s per cwt. Onions: New season's, 10s to lis 6d. Cabbage; 2s to 6s a sack; on benches. Is Gd to 3s a dozen. Lettuce: Is to 8s a case. Rhubarb: 2s to 3s a dozen. Spinach, 6d to 9d. Spring onions: 6d to Is 3d a bundle. Marrows: 2s 6d to 5s a dozen. Radishes: 3d to 6d. Cucumbers: Outdoor, Is to ss. Carrots, parsnips, beet and turnips: Is to 2s a dozen bundles. Green peas, 4s to 63 6d a bag. DAIRY PRODUCE. Hen eggs: Is 4d to Is 6d a dozen. Duck eggs: Is 3d to Is sd. Farmers' butter: In lib pats, lljd to Is Id per lb. POULTRY. Cockerels:, Prime, heavy, 6s to 83 each; smaller, 2s upward; light, 4s to 5s 6d; smaller, Is 6d upward. Roosters: Fat, heavy, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; light, Is 6d to 2s 6d. Hens: Fat, heavy, 3s 6a- to ss; light, 2s to 3s. Ducks: Old 2b to 3s. Drakes: Young, 4s to ss; smaller, 2s upward.

WOOL TRADE WAGES. AGREEMENTS TERMINATED. [FROM OUR OA7N CORRESPONDENT.], 1 LONDON, Nov. 30. The general agreement governing conditions of employment in the wool textile industry has been terminated after due notice by the employers. After some weeks of desultory public, discussion covering, if somewhat thinly, a very wide field, the representatives of the employers and the unions on the joint industrial council reached a deadlock just a week ago, and negotiations have been suspended sine die. No immediate dislocation of business, however, is expected. So long as notices to reduce wages or to alter working hours are not posted by the employers, the trade union officials are content that matters shall remain as they are. On the other hand, the employers appear to be satisfied for the present with the' wages agreement out of the way, because it will enable them to act more promptly when they decide on another. The employers have been requested by their federations not to put up notices as yet., but it is feared that some firms in the out-districts, where it is believed the operatives are ready to accept a reduction of wages, will, ere long, precipitate action. The trade union officials have announced that they will, not permit either individual or sectional action of this kind, and when something definite is done in that way it , remains to be seen whether they wiil deal with the individual firms or sections, or whether they will elect to deal with the woollen and worsted industries as a whole It is understood that what the employers have in mind, sooner or later, is to bring about a sectional adjustment of wages rather than a fixed percentage rate of reduction over the whole of the. West Riding industry. It is contended that, during the war and since, the wages paid to certain sections of the operatives have got altogether out of proportion, especially in the more or less unskilled occupations, while the high wages paid to young girls and boys are objected to* as being far in excess of the service rendered. Moreover, it is stated that recent developments have adversely affected the,, manufacturers of goods for ladies' wear as compared with those who are engaged in the production of cloths for men's wear, or heavy woollen goods, and that there is need for an adjustment, both of wages and trade union regulations, which should not affect all sections alike..