BUTTER MARKET FIRMER
PRICES RISE 2/- TO 4/- PER CWT.
CHEESE PRICES STILL lUILLING
z The butter market was firm at the end of the week with prices from 2s to 4& in advance of those ruling the previous week. New Zealand wap quoted late in the week at prices ranging from 103 s to 106 s. Thhre appears to be a better feeling in the market. ' Cheese prices are still falling and selling is very slow. Quotations for white are 3s to 7s lower than last week and range from 58s to 625. Coloured has undergone a similar drop of Is to 7s and it was selling slowly at 56s to 61s. . v • ' \ “There is a better feeling on the butter market,” -states advice received yesterday by Joseph Nathan and Co. from their London principals, Trengro'use and Nathan, Ltd: “Prices are" 105 s as' compared with 103 s last week, • There is a better demand for cheese. White is priced at fi&s (65s last week) and' coloured 56s (635).
“The cheese market is dull and prices irregular,” states a cable dated December 4 received by Turner and Co. from Lonsdale’s; “Coloured is quoted at 57s to 58s (62s last week). White is priced at 58s to 60s (645). The butter martet is steady and there is better deinand,” continues the advice. “Dani h Is quoted at 128 s (1265), New Zealand 'at 104 e to 106 s (100 s to 104 s), and Australian at 100 s to 102 s (94s tq100s).’’, “The butter market is firm,” states a cable received from A. J. Mills and 'Co. by Mr. E.' Griffiths yesterday. “Prices 'are as follows, with last week’s in parentheses; New Zealand finest, 105 s to 'lo6s (103 s to 104 s); firsts, 104 s (102 s Danish, 126 s to 128 s (1345); Australian, 100 s to 104 s (96s to 100 s); New Zealand unsalted, UOs to 112 s. The cheese market is very slow,” continues-the advice. “Prices are: New .Zealand white, 's9s to 62s (62s to 645); New Zealand coloured, 58s to 61s (60s to 625). “The cheese market is very weak,” states a report from the London house, of the New -Zealand Loan a<id Mercantile Agency Co., dated December 3. “White is quoted at 60s to 61s per cwt (655) and coloured 57s to 58s (635). The market for butter is firm. Net Zealand choicest salted butter is quoted at l(J5s to Io6s per cwt (104 s to 106 s). A cable received by. Newton King, Ltd., on December 3, from their principals ('R. and W. Davidson) states that the butter market is firm with prices for salted at 100 s to 105 s and for unsalted 124 s to 130 s. The cheese market is weak, white being 60s to 61s and coloured 595. Advances have been reduced to 9d for butter, 7d for wheys and 4Jd for cheese.” The Farmers’ Co-op. reports having received the following cable advice from its London principals,' Messrs Andrew Clement: “Butter firm at 104 s to 106 s; cheese is steady, white being quoted at 61s and coloured at 595.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 11
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