INCREASED BUTTER DEMAND

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 5

INCREASED BUTTER DEMAND

CHEESE WEAKER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this dav at 9. a.m.) LONDON, 1- eh. 28. Australian and .New Z*-a.and butter is almost lli u only kind offering in .South of England. It is cw.Liit it ha.s the strong! si hoid on the public taste. Samuel Page and Sun, Lading dairy produce merciiants stale the intensive advertising campaign is extending the demand lor it in the .Midlands and north. Australian and New Zealand butter is approaching two thirds of Britain's butts r imparts from all sources. Import'. from Denmark amount to only live-four a etiths of the Australian and New Zealand total, the imports of which base increased by 72,850 hundredweight compared with .January of last year, whereas the imports of all other sources lias fallen off' forty thousand hundredweight. The decrease of stocks held in cold storage, compared with Dust year, shows the consumption has increased considerably. Too'ley Street representatives say nearly all European countries are on the smallest production of butter and considerable quantities have been shipped to them from the English market, alp] nk J o to Ireland. Supplies of Australian butter are insufficient, for all demands, and unprecedentedly forced up the values of New Zealand. While the consumption and prices of butter are likely to continue t-lie upward tendency of the market for Australian and N.Z. cheese is disappointing. There i.s a growing demand for fancy cheese. Toolev Street experts are of the opinion that the weapon to fight this competitor is high 1111 ilitv. The public will prefer cheeses in their original state, if the quality is right. Alternative foods such as bacon and fish arc very cheap rest riding the consumption of cheese.