BUTTER MARKET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1926, Page 5

BUTTER MARKET.

PRICES AT HOME. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board advises having received the following advice from its .London office, dated December 3rd: — Butter. —New Zealand finest, IGGs; first grade, 1645; stored, 150 s to IGGs, according to arrival and condition. The market is firm. Board sales, 4033 boxes. Australian.—lGOs to lG2s, exceptional, lG4s; stored, 1525. •Canadian. —156 s to 15Ss. Argentine.—l44s to 1495. , Dutch.—l7Ss. to ISOs. Siberian, 146 s to 150 s. Danish, 182 s. Retail prices are advancing on Monday: Colonial Is 7d, Danish Is 9d. New Zealand Cheese. —Finest, 945; first grade, 935. White and coloured Canadian, 92s to 965; exceptional, 98s, according to make. The market is firm; retail price, lid. Board sales, 12,954 crates. AMERICAN PRICES. The Board has also received the following advice frond its agents in Canada:—Butter, New York, 2s 3d, market firm; Montreal, Is 7:)d. CONTROL DEFENDED. HAMILTON, Monday. Over 100 farmers attended a meeting convened by" Mr 11. T. Cooper to discuss dairy control matters at Te Arolia. Mr Cooper moved a vote of no-confid-ence in the Control Board. The subject was debated for two hours, and the motion was lost by 100 votes to Most of the speakers' .stoutly" defended the actions of the Control Board.