BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17408, 22 May 1928, Page 11

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

BOARD’S MARKET REPORT. WELLINGTON, Monday. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board has received the following market report from its London office, dated May 18, prices for the previous week being given in parentheses: — Butter.—New Zealand: Salted, 106 s to 170 s per cwt (102 s to 168 s): unsalted, 168 s to 176 s (168 s to 1765). Deliveries of New Zealand this week, 1060 tons; in store, 4 900 tons. Australian: Finest salted, 156 s to 160 s

(152 s to 156 s). Irish creamery: Salted, 166 s to 168 s (160 s to 1625); unsalted, 170 s to J 72s ( 164 s to 1665). Danish: Spot, 178 s to ISOs (179 s to 180 s); f.0.b., 170 s to 172 s (170 s to 171 s). Dutch creamery: Unsaltcd, 170 s to J72s (168 s to 170 s) i Esthonian: Baited, 160 s to 161 s (160 s); unsaltcd, 163 s (1625). Polish: Unsalted, 156 s (1565). Siberian: 154 s to 156 s (150 s to 1525). Market Steady. Retail prices unchanged. Ghee sc. —New Zealand: White and coloured, 95s to 97s per cwt (96s to 975). Improved demand this end of the week. Australian: Coloured, 93s to 95s (93s to 955). Canadian: Finest white, 112 s to 114 s (112 s to 114 s);

coloured, 108 s to 112 s (108 s to 112 s). Market steady. The weather in Northern Hemisphere producing countries is generally cold and unfavourable. Itie spring increase in production is there-, fore delayed. The Mahana completed discharge of butter on May 11, the Cambridge on May 12, and the Middlesex, butter and cheese, on \lay 14. Steamers arrived this week as follows :—Port Hunter, commenced discharge of cheese on May 12 and completed on May 15; Rotorua, commenced' discharge on May 14; Ruapehu, discharge of produce not yet commenced. The board also received advic-e

from its agents ‘dm Oanada as —Butter; New York, 46 cents _(j| lid); Montreal, 34J cents (Is 5* L*. San Francisco, /j?, cents (Is 9d).