BUTTER AND CHEESE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 14

BUTTER AND CHEESE

OVERSEAS VALUES Under date October 21, the London agency of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board cabled as follows, prices for the previous week are given in parentheses:— BUTTER New Zealand. —Salted. 173 s to 178 s. (174 s to 178 s); unsalted, 184 s to 18Ss (184 s to 188 s). Prices nominal with almost entire absence of demand. Australian. —Finest salted, 172 s to 176 s (172 s to 1765); unsalted. 178 s to 182 s (178 s to 182 s). Argentine. —Finest unsalted, 170 sto 174 s (170 s to 1765). Irish Creamery. —Salted, 170 s to 172 s (174 s to 1765); unsalted, 176 s (174 sto 178 s). Dutch. —Unsalted, 188 s to 192 s (114 s to 1965). Esthonian. —Salted, 170 s to 176 s (170 s to 178 s); unsalted, 174 s to 176 s (174 s to 178 s). Latvian. —Unsalted, 1725. Siberian. —Salted, 148 s to 156 s (152 s to 15Ss). Danish.— l9os to 192 s (192 s to 1965). Argentine production now increasing. Retail prices are unchanged, f CHEESE N-.w Zealand. —White and coloured, 102 s to 105 s (103 s to 106 s). Market very slow. Canadian. —Finest white and coloured, 103 s to 106 s (104 s to 105 s). Australian.— Finest white and coloured, 100 s to 102 s (100 s to 103 s). English. —Finest farmers, 126 s to 130 s (126 s to 130 s). Retail prices unchanged. CANADIAN MARKETS The board has also received the following market report from its agent in Canada:—• Butter. —New York. 483 cents (2s Montreal, 273 cents (Is 13d); San Francisco, 49 cents (2s Old); Vancouver, 39| cents (Is 7 5-8 d); Canadian, 383 cents (Is 7 3-8 d). Cheese. —Montreal, 20s cents (lOd). Exports from Canada. —From May 1 (beginning of season) to August 27, 1927, 3,623 packages of butter and 390,481 boxes of cheese; from August 28, 1926, 58,958, 557.610. Exports from Australia to United Kingdom.—During July, August and September. 1927, 41,000 boxes of butter; during July, August and September. 1926, 133,559 boxes of butter.