WEAK DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 20 February 1930, Page 12

WEAK DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS.

Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., have received the following;.market report frqm '."Messrs. Trengrousc and Nathan, Ltd., London,- dated 18th February: —''New Zealand butter, 1465, 147s ' per ewt; New Zealand cheese, white, S7s per cwt; coloured, Sos" per cwt. Both markets -weak."' • ■ ' .-.'...-. ■ '

'; .The New Zealand Jjoan and Mercantile ,Agency Company, Ltd., lias received the following advice from its London house, dated 19th February:—"Dairy produce (last week's .figures in parentheses): Butter, Newl.Zealaud'choicest salted ,140s to l'4Bs per cwt" (1525. to 154s).'.Cheese,'white 86s to ..87s'per cwt (90s), coloured 84s to Sss per'cwt'-.(88s)'. Markets slow/ . LOCAL PRODUCE PRICES. ,-v. ' WELLINGTON, 20th. February. Laery and -Co., .Ltd., .advise current prices. as follows:— . , . 'Wheat, 6s 8d to' ',7s 6d bushel, sacks in for ten-sack lots or over; ' smaller lots 2d bushel extra. "Broken wheat for mash 15s sack. Oats: Machine dressed Algerians seed, 5s 9d;' Gartous, 3s 9d to 4s 9d; crushed oats,' ss; Dun oats, 5s 9d bushel sacks 'in. Barley, Chevalier, 5s 2d bushel. Mixed fowl feed: Tikaka brand, 6s bushel. Less than 5-sack lota 6s 3d bushel/sacks in. Pollard: N.Z., £10 10s, less than %-ton lots 10s ton extra. Bran, £9 per ton; less than %-ton lots, 10s ton extra. Peas, crushed for fowls, Gs 6d bushel; feed peas, 5s Gd; .partridge peas,~ 5s 9d and Gs bushel. Maize: N.Z. whole, 7s 2d, crushed maize 7s lOd, less than 10-sack lots 2d bushel extra. . Maizemeal: Ss 6d . bushel. Meals: Farro food £10, barley meal £S, meatmeal v£i3, Proto food £10, siicrosine £10 10s, wheatmeal £12 10s, pigmeal £8 ss,.peameal £10, less than ton lots 10s extra.. Linseed: Moose brand linseed meal, £17, nuts £15; less than i£-ton lots 10s ton extra, gait: Rock £G; less than ton lots 10s extra. Shell grit: Tikaka brand oyster or pipi, 5-bag lots 5s bag; smaller quantities 5s 6d bag. Molasses: In cases -2/sGlb tins, 10s 6d case; in casks about scwt 40s drum. Mutton birds: Tasmanian, in casks 300/400 birds, 7d per bird. Black Leaf 40, 101b tins 555, 21b tins 14s 6d, %lb bottles 5s 3d each; loz bottles 14s 6d dozen. Basic Slag: 17-20 per cent, and 20-22/ per cent, to arrive about February, prices on application. Superphosphates: £& 17s 6d ton f.o.r. Smart road. Smaller quantities through store, 7s. Blood bone and manure, ,9s 6d cwt, potato 8s 6d, bonedust 8s 6d ' cwt. Peanuts: Java shelled peanuts 3%d per 1b; Chinese in shell, 4d per lb; less than sack lots %d per lb extra. Chaff: Prime Blenheim, £8 5s per'ton; smaller quantities 9s per cwt, sacks in. Cow chaff, £7 per ton; smaller quantities Cs 6d sack. Eggs: Is. lOd to 2s per dozen. Butter:. Dairy pats and bulk, Is to Is >■ Id • per lb. Pigs: 60's to 90's, 6d to 7d per lb. Fowls: White Leghorns, 4s Gd and 5s per pair, Black Orpingtons and heavy table breed 6s to Ss per pair. Geese. 14s to IGs per pair. Turkeys c Live or dead, Is 2d to Is 3d per lb. Ducks: Young Indian Iximners Ss to 10s, heavy breeds 11s to 13s pair, old Gs to 6s 6d pair. SALT IN BUTTER. The Dairy Board yesterday afternoon approved the draft o£ a new regulation relative to salt in butter. The Director of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture (Mr. W. Singleton) was present at the meeting, and discussed the anatter with, the board. He showed by statistics covering a recent period that approximately three-quarters of the butter exported-.was insufficiently salted, this defect costing the industry between £15,000 and £20,000 a year,-while a'proportion was unduly, salted. .'. This was affecting the reputation of New Zealand butter'on the Home market.. Mr. 'Singleton ' submitted a draft 'regulation ' requirnig-- that the amount of salt added to butter for export should, not be below 1% per cent, or more than 2 per cent. In, special cases where buyers required a higher percentage, this would be permitted on the prcduction of a certificate of authorisation. The board approved of the proposed regulation, which is to be gazetted. CEYLON TEA MARKET EASY. The offering; at Colombo tea sales on Tuesday totalled 2,200,0001b. There was ■little demand for common tea, aud the market declined accordingly. Better grades advanced in sympathy with the quality, which was. good. A similar .quantity ivill ■"be catalogued lop licxt Tuesday's sale.