BUTTER PRICE HIGHER

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1935, Page 5

BUTTER PRICE HIGHER

market becomes very quiet. ELTHAM MAKES SALE AT lOjd. An advance in New Zealand butter prices on the Isondop marhet of from 3s to 5s is revealed in a survey of quotations contained in cables received on Saturday compared with the figures of a week ago. Reports, however, emphasise that the market has become very A good sale of buter has been made by the Eltham Dairy Co. The balance of the season’s make, amounting to about 1000 boxes, has been sold for 10|d per lb. As this is for first grade and not finest quality the price is regarded as very satisfactory. The cheese market remains steady with prices on a par with last week’s, white showing a tendency te rise and coloured a slight disposition to fall in Price. Information received by Newton King Ltd. from R. and W. Davidson Ltd. states that salted butter is quoted at 81s to 82s, compared with 79s to 80s last week and 78s 6d last year. The figures for unsalted are 79s to 82s, 78s to 80s and 78s. White cheese is now 445, compared with 43s last week and 44s 6d last year and coloured is 43s compared with 43s 6d to 44s last week and 44s last year. Mr. E. Griffiths’ advice from A. J. Mills and Co. states that butter is 82s f/7s last week) for finest and 80s (765) for first grade. Danish butter has risen from 86s to 98s, the spot price being 78s (68s), and Australian quotations range from 78s to 81s compared with 75s last week. New Zealand white cheese is quiet at the same price as last week, 43s to 43s 6d, coloured having receded 6d to 445-44 s 6d. Canadian figures are the same at 60s to 62s (white) and 58s to 60s (coloured). < • New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency quotations are 825.(78s to 795) for choicest salted butter, with a quiet market, and 43s for white cheese (43s last week). Coloured cheese is 43s 6d (43s 6d to 445), the market being slow. Henry A. Lane and Co. Ltd.’s advice states that butter is 82s, the market being quieter at the advance but firm. White cheese is at 43s to 43s 6d and coloured at 445. The market is quiet, A. S. Paterson and Co. Ltd.’s advice from Messrs. J. and J. Lonsdale and Co. (London) Ltd. states that the butter max-

ket is quiet with New Zealand 81s to 82s, / Australian 80s to 81s and Danish 77s (f.0.b.) and 98s (landed). For cheese the market is dull, white being 43s to 43s 6d , ■ and coloured 44s to 44s 6d. Messrs. Collett and Co., Ltd., report butter, finest, at 81s to 82s, first at 79s to 80s. White cheese is at 43s to 44s and coloured cheese at 43s to 445. The Anglo-Continental Produce Cd, Ltd. (Mr. H. M. Thomson) •- reports that the butter market is steady at 81s to 82s. Cheese is quiet, white 43s and coloured . ' ; 445. : ' ■ .'.■■■■■ '*/■'.. ■?:■;<