BUTTER IN LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 12

BUTTER IN LONDON

CLOSES FIRM

SHORTAGE OF SUPPLIES

.T The New Zealand and Australian "i-v. butter, market in London closed firm *.:■■ last Week" after heavy buying earlier '»'■ in the week, according to information ~ suptJlied by the Primary . Products '■■ • Marketing Department Prices were .—" nominal on the available short supo 'i plies.. Wholesale quotations were:— '.'-":"-. ... Last week. Previous week, o . , / ( S hl g s.'per cwt.) i (shlgs. per cwt.) ' NZ 'salted -.. .100 to 102 . . . 99 to 100 • <■}~.■ up to 104 ™ N.Z.: unsalted . 102 to 104 -102 to 101 -^Australian sa]ted . ioo up 'f; Danish, spot ..114to 115 H» ot ■ The: price- ' for New Zealand salted ,v ■ butter a "year ago was 88s to 89s. ..." The amount of New Zealand butter iv, in store..was 5944 tons, compared with I; ■ 2597 . tons -. at <■. the corresponding date •«•" last year,' and Australian butter in -ii, store amounted to 5335 tons. v.-■■ The retail price for .New Zealand ■v- butter was unchanged at Is a Id, witn -^.Danish quoted at Is 2d. _ _ ■ _■ ■-•: ■■ The cheesermarket was firm at.the v following wholesale-quotaUons:—New j;: Zealand, white and coloured. 66s to 67s •a' cwt, compared with 65s 6d to >f> 66s- the iprevious week, and ods _t>a a & year ago; Australian, 63s to 655; Cana- "« dfan, 74s to 755; finest English farmers , ,I f ,895.t0'965.. ._;'