DAIRY PRODUCE PRICES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5595, 24 November 1916, Page 3

DAIRY PRODUCE PRICES.

rntCHA.SE> FROM CANADA

REE ON RAIL AND THE LEVY

Private cable advices show that the London market i- quite bate ;;i New Zealand butter and cheese and that Danish butter is bringing 216 s to 220 s per cwt. Canadian cheese is firm at 120 sto 1245. It is learned by mail tliat agents for the Imperial Government are buying Canadian ehee.v- outputs at th e factory and supplementing their purchases by buying from merchants. The Government is also buying cheese in London as well as in Canada. It is also reported that the American make lias been exceptionally good, and that .sent to London gen-

orally hotter than either Canadian and New Zealand. But there is still a remnant of the prejudice against American observable in the London market. Cheese exporters have Ijeen advised that they have to pay higher freights for the carriage of their produce overseas, and no shipments are accepted except upon agreement t>» pay such increased freight should it be decided upon by the Imperial Board of Trade, which controls the Insulated cargo space.

Purchasers of dairy produce for export who bought “Free on rail" are having difficulty with some of the factories over the payment - I j 1 per pound butter-fat levy, the maker- disclaiming liability to pay the levy on the ground that they are not concerned with thp destination or The butter or cheese once it is “on rail , that they are interested only ,up to that point and that it is the purchaser's property and at his discretion whether he disposes of the produce locally (and therefore it would iy. immune from the levy) or whether lie ships it a,nay. when the levy of fd per pound on butter or it.s equivalent would have to lie paid. Locally, butter for export is valued at 19id per pound if.o.b., and cheese Tld per pound, although no sales are reported to have been made of choe.-e at this price.