CANADA'S CHEESE MARKETS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1203, 11 August 1911, Page 8

CANADA'S CHEESE MARKETS.

■COMPETITION PIiOMNEAV ZEALAND./',;, In tin article, dated June 22, dealing with Canada's cheese markets, Mr. .1. J. Kuddpck, Dominion Dairy Commissioner, makes reference to Now-Zealand as under:— Thn situation, in tho markets of Great Britain in regard to Canadian chese has changed somewhat since the New Zealand imports have become a factor in tho trade. Tho shipments of Now Zenlaud cheese Imve increased from iI.OOO.UUO pounds for tho year ending Juno 3tf, 1901, to 50,000,000 pounds'for tho same period catling in 1910. It will depend very largely on tho relative price of butter and cheese whether the increase will be continued or not. Private advices from JN'ew Zealand intimate that tlie present season began very bndly with cold weather and much lack of rain in some districts, and that the cheese; siiipraoats for the season jtist-bcgiiining-nrc much smaller than they Ji'ercJJ'ast ydar. The arrival of'SO.OOfl.OOO'pounds of New Zealand cheese on the market during outwinter, months has lessened the speculative demaiid for Canadian cheese to supply the winter trade,, but we gain from tho fact that a. larger proportion .of our cheese is now wanted for immediate consumption, 'and a-Tifgher level'of prices is now. rnaiutajned £J during'. tho period of greatest production. Mr. Buddoek points oiit"tliSt"it is rather remarkable that thp increase in New Zea'laud receipts for the year e.ndiug .Tune :iO, .1910, as compared with 1904; should tally so closely with the decrease from Cana«i» for the same period. Thn difference between the increase on the one hand aud ■the decrease on the only 535,21)11 pounds, the decrease from Canada being that much less than the increase from New Zealand. " I do not want anyone to imagine for a moment that Canada lias lost, or is yet anywhere near losing, her. premier position iii the cheese markets of 'Great Britain," concluded the Commissioner. "Wo still supply about G5 per ■cent, of tho total imports, and 77 per cent, of tho kind which we make, and. apart from the green' condition, the quality of our cheese has improved of lato years." foro tho Chief Justice.