BEST PRICES FOR MONTHS
BUTTER SALES EFFECTED THREE MONTHS’ MAKE AT IS. Id. UPWARD TREND SUSTAINED. The best prices so far offered by big butter-buying concerns for the past six months have been made during the last d-iv or two. One North Taranaki company has sold for export 2000 boxes of March, April and May make at Is. Id., the best price obtained since the tall in values set in. The steady upward trend of prices for the last three months is thought by many of those in the trade to be likely to continue. Not long ago factories were waiting for offers of Is., but already an extra penny has been offered. There is some inquiry for cheese, though at the price offering, 6d„ it is not thought that much business is likely to be done. In the South Island fair quantities of cheese have been Sold. Mr. H. M. Thomson, Taranaki representative of the Anglo-Continental Produce Company, reports that according to a cable •from his London principals butter is strong at 1245. per cwt. and cheese is steady nt from 575. to alls.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1931, Page 4
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