BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16049, 6 February 1918, Page 3

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

PRICES AND CONDITIONS. OF COMMANDEER GAZETTED. Tho conditions under which the whole of the exportable surplus of this- season’s New Zealand- butter and cheese is to be purchased by tho Dominion Government on behalf of the Imperial authorities are notified in a Gazette Extraordinary issued on Monday. The following prices are to be paid for butter * delibered free on board steamer at a customary grading-port for carriage to the United Kingdom: Creamery Butter: First grade, 157 s per hundredweight. In the case of second-grade butter a deduction of 6d per hundredweight shall be made for each half-grade ppmt by which the butter falls below first grade. Whey Butter and Dairy Butter; First grade, 133 s 8d per hundredweight; second grade, 129 s per hundredweight. Milled Butter: First grade, T24a 4d per hundredweight; second-grade, 119 s Bdj per hundredweight. Tho price to be paid by the Government in the case of first grade full-cream factory cheese- is lOd per pound, and in the case'of second grade factory cheese 9|d per pound, deliveroustaifiary grading-port for direct carriage to the United Kingdom. The prices to bo paid for dairy cheese are Bjd pel pound for first grade and 8d per pound for second grade, delivered free oil board.