BUTTER PRICES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1927, Page 2

BUTTER PRICES

| Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, AIarch 19. “It is a sign of returning sanity,” commented a, butter market authority in reference to the South Auckland farmers’ recent meeting condemning the Dairy Board’s former polity. The authority says: “T lie London market prospects are better. the lit stthree days of sales have cleared one eighty-live thousand boxes of New Zealand butter. There were 36 thousand crates of cheese also sold during the first three days. 'Flic prices obtained are not yet good, but these low rates are unavoidable, in view of accumulated stocks. Improvements are to be anticipated next week, when the market i has settled down to now conditions. ' EIGHT FOR AT ARRETS QUEBEC. Afarch 19. The Provincal Legislature of Quebec has voted fifty thousand dollars to teach the fanners of Quebec modern classification and packing of agricultural produce. Hon. J. E. Caron, the Alinister of Agriculture, declared that the American market is almost closed to Canadian products, while Canada’s hold on the British market is being seriously endangered by Australian and New Zealand competition. These countries he said, are selling large quanities of fine butter and cheese Air Caron said be was impressed by the action of New Zealand in establishing retail apple shops in Britian.