DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 16

DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS

BUTTER AND CHEESE IMPROVING. Week-end reports by agents give no indication of any immediate change in the dairy produce market. Reports are: Anglo - Continental: Both markets steady; creamery butter, . 775; cheese, white and coloured, 455. A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd. (J. and J. Lonsdale and Co. (London), Ltd.): Butter: Market improving; New Zealand, 76s to 775; Australian, 73s to 745; Danish, 63s f.0.b., 84s landed. Cheese: Market firmer: White 455, coloured 445; Canadian, matured, 545. Collett and Co., Ltd.: Creamery butter, finest 77s to 78s, first 76s to 775. Cheese: White 45s to 465, coloured 44s to 455. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER PRICES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, June 2. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board has been advised by the Australian board that it has fixed the minimum prices at which Australian butter may be sold for forward shipment to the United Kingdom during the coming week at 9d and BJd. These prices are the New Zealand f.o.b. equivalent to the Australian c.i.f.e. minimum prices fixed. SHAREMARKET TRANSACTIONS. Sharemarket business reported by the Press Association on Saturday was:— Auckland:—Sharemarket sales: Bank of Australasia, £1115s; Bank of New Zealand, 52s 7d; Australian Provincial Assurance, 10s 3d; Robinson Ice, 19s 3d; Mahakipawa, 8d; Waitahu, 4s 9d. Dunedin: Reported sales: Broken Hill South (late sale Friday), £3 12s 6d (cum div.); Refrigerating (cont.), 9s Id, 9s; Auckland Gas (cont.), 19s 6d; Golden Point, 3id. Christchurch: Sales of unlisted stocks: Woolworths, Sydney (ord,), £5 4s 6d. Sales on exchange: New Zealand Government, 4 per cent, inscribed, 1940, £lO5 10s; Kaiapoi Woollens (17s paid), 9s 8d; Kaiapoi Woollens (7s paid), 4s; Dunlop Rubber, 18s 6d (two parcels); Alexander (13s 6d paid), 16s 9d; Deep Lead (Is paid), 2s; King Solomon, 3s 8d (two parcels); Maerewhenua, 7Jd (two parcels); Mahakipawa, 7Ad; Mount Morgan, 23s 6d (three parcels); Waitahu, ‘ls 8d (three parcels); Euratha (5s paid), 13s. Sales reported: New Zealand Refrigerating (10s paid), 9s (two parcels); New Zealand'Breweries (cum div.), 44s 7d; Waitahu, 4s 9d.