DAIRY MARKETS WEAKER

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1932, Page 10

DAIRY MARKETS WEAKER

PRICES SHOW ANOTHER FALL.

Butter Quotations: — Yesterday: 103 s to 105 s; weak. Last Friday: 107 s to 108 s; weak. Cheese Quotations: — Yesterday: Coloured Gls to 625, white 60s to 61s; slow. Last Friday: Coloured 635; white 625; quiet. Dairy produce markets were weak according to advices received in New Plymouth yesterday, and a general fall in prices was recorded. Butter was quoted by one firm as low as 104 s for finest arade and 103 s for first, and cheese at 61s for coloured and 60s for white. Quotations on the corresponding date last year were HOs for butter end 50s for cheese. Mr. E. Griffiths has received the following cable from his London principals, A. J. Mills and Co.: The butter market is weak. New Zealand finest, 104 s, 105 s (107 s 108 s last week); New Zealand firsts, 103 s, 104 s (106 s 107 s); New Zealand unsalted, 112 s, 114 s (114 s 116 s); Danish, 112 s, 114 s (114 s 116 s); Australian, 102 s, 104 s (104 s 106 s). The cheese market is slow. New Zealand white, 61s (625); New Zealand coloured, 62s (635). A received by Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd. on Thursday quoted butter at 106 s to 107 s, with cheese unchanged. The butter market was described as quiet. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received the following advice from London, dated April 20 (last week’s figures being in parentheses): —Butter: New Zealand choicest salted, 104 s, 106 s per cwt. (108 s market slow and irregular. Cheese: White, 61s, 62s per cwt. (625); coloured, 625, 63s per cwt. (635); market-slow.