DAIRY PRODUCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 9

DAIRY PRODUCE

NINE MONTHS’ FIGURES [ P’r Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON, May 9. The grading figures of the dairy division -of the Department of Agriculture for the nine months ended April, 1931, show an increase for butter of 0.17 per •■(‘nt. at. 90,265 tons (90,.I |, S.', and for cheese an increase oi 5.44 per cent, at 83,364 tons (79,059) as compand with the corresponding perim of last season. Reduced to terms of butterfat equivalent there was an increase to date Over last season of 2.076 per cent. THE LONDON MARKET . Messrs Samuel Page and Son report j under date of May 6:— Butter: Market, very slow. Danish. I 17> io I.lBs (,1.20s to 1225); Num Zea | land finest salted. 105 s to 107 s (106 s to 108 s); Australian finest unsalted, • 104 s to 106 s (106 s to lOSs); .Xustrnlian finest salted. 103 s 1o 105 s < 104 a to 106 s); Australian G.A.Q., 9Ss to 102 s (,100s to ,102 s Cheese: 'Market depTes.-ed. New Zea-1 land white, 45s to 4/s ( I6s to 48s); New Zealand coloured, 4Ss to s(>s (50s to 51s); Canadian white. 68s to 74s| (66s to 725); Canadian coloured. 70s to' 76s (68s to 765). (Last week’s quotations shoyti parentheses).