DAIRY PRODUCE SLOW

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 279, 25 November 1931, Page 9

DAIRY PRODUCE SLOW

CHEESE STOCKS ACCUMULATING Joseph Nathan and Co. Ltd., have received the following market report from Trengrouso and Nathan, Ltd., London, dated November 21: Now Zealand butter, finest, 108 s per cwt.; first. 104 s per cwt. Market slow. New Zealand cheese, white, 66s per cwt. (market quiet); coloured, 6c's, 64s per cwt. (nominally). Stock accumulating, with negligible demand. The Dairy Board’s London office reports that arrivals of butter from Russia last week totalled 720 tons. The Empire Marketing Board’s estimate of stocks of all butters as at November 14, is 578,467 boxes, compared with 438,361 boxes a year ago, an increase of 140,106 boxes. Deliveries last week and quantities in store were as follow', tho figures of a year ago being shown in parentheses:— Deliveries. In store. N.Z. butter, tons .. 1,618 (1,631) 4,038 (3.466) Aust, butter tons .. 1,062 (61<?) 1,275 (623) N.Z. chees, crates . 9,500 (11.325) 23,000 (29,417) Can. cheese. boxes . 21,201 (14,626) 264,140 (261,335) Big Shipments to London. A total of 231,691 boxed of butter and 44,126 crates of cheese were taken by three ships for London during the last fortnight. The Rankitiki. which saile I on November 7, took 92,012 boxes of butter and 14,294 crates of che* tho Tamaroa, sailed November 14, 59,635 boxes of butter and 9306 crates of cheese; Port Hunter, sailed November 19, 80,044 boxes butter and 20,526 crates cheese.