BUTTER ADVANCES SLIGHTLY

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1934, Page 11

BUTTER ADVANCES SLIGHTLY

MARKET FIRM; UPWARD TREND. CHEESE QUOTATIONS UNCHANGED. The butter market has advanced slightly since last week and closes firm with a slight upward tendency. The price is still appreciably below that at the corresponding period of 1933. Cheese is unchanged on a steady market showing a slight advance on last year. Agents’ reports, with last week's prices in parenthes&s 3XQ'. — Mr. E. Griffiths (A. J. Mills and Company, Ltd):—Butter: The market is firm; New Zealand finest, 79s to 80s- (78s to 795); New Zealand firsts, 78s to 79s (76s to 775); New Zealand unsalted, 82s to 84s (82s to 84s); Danish, 100 s to 102 s (90s); Danish f.0.b., 87s (80s); Australian, 73s to 74s (725). Cheese: The market is firm; New Zealand white 49s (49s to 49s 6d), coloured 46s (46s to 475); Canadian c.i.f., 48s to 50s (48s to 50s). New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.: Butter: New Zealand choicest salted, 78s to 78s 6d per cwt (77s to 78s); market firm. Cheese: White, 49s to 49s 6d per cwt (49s to 49s 6d); coloured, 46s to 46s 6d per cwt (46s to 46s 6d); market quiet. Newton King (Messrs. R. and W. Davidson):—Butter: The market has advanced slightly during the week and closes firm with slight upward tendency; salted, 77s to 80s (76s to 795); unsalted, 77s to 80s (76s to 795). Cheese: The market remains about the same as last week and the market closes quiet; white, 49s (49s 6d); coloured, 46s to 46s 6d (46s 6d to 475). Henry A. Lane and Co., Ltd., Hawera: Butter, New Zealand 795; market remains firm. Cheese: White 495, coloured 465; market steady and a firm business doing.