BUTTER AND CHEESE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 12

BUTTER AND CHEESE

BOARD’S LONDON REPORT Under date April 5 the London house of Now Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board cabled as follows (prices for last week being given in parentheses) : Butter New Zealand, finest salted, 166 s to 170 s a cwt (168 s to 1725); market slow, business done principally at 166 sto 16Ss; unsalted, 170 s to 176 s (170 s to 178 s). Deliveries New Zealand this week, 988 tons; in store, 6,470 tons. Australian; Finest salted, 3 60s to 164 s (162 s to lG6s); unsalted, 160 s to 164 s (162 s to 1665). Argentine: Finest unsalted, 158 sto 162 s (158 s to 1625). Irish creamery: Salted, 1725; unsalted, 1765. Danish: Spot, ISSs to 190 s (192 s to 1945), f.0.b., 177 s to 178 s (186 s to 187 s). Dutch creamery: Unsalted, 186 s to 188 s (186 s to 188 s). Siberian: 160 s to 162 s (164 s to 168 s). Polish: Unsalted, 164 s to 3 66s (170 s). Market closing steadier. Retail prices unchanged. Cheese New Zealand: White and coloured, 97 to 99s (98s to 100 s). Market slow. Canadian: Finest white, 108 s to 112 s (108 s to 112 s); coloured, 106 s to 108 s (104 s to 106 s). English: Finest farmers’, 135 s to 138 s (135 s to 138 s). Retail prices are unchanged. North American Values The board has also received the following market report from its agents in Canada: Butter, New York, 45£ cents (Is lOfd): Montreal, 391 cents (Is 7?d); San Francisco, 40 cents (Is 8d). The board states that owing to an error in transmission of the cable message last week’s report gave the butter in store in England as 660 tons. This should have read 6,660 tons. Reports A. S. Paterson and Company, Limited, yesterday received the following cablegram from J. and J. Lonsdale and Company, Limited, London:—Tlie dairy produce market is quietly steady. Butter, 168 s; cheese, 975. Leonard and Son, Limited, have received the following cablegram from A. C. Rowson, London, dated April 10:—Butter. 168 s to 170 s; market steadier. Cheese, 97s to 98s; market quiet. New York extras, 46 cents, cipals of Or. Paviour-Smith, the AngloContinental Produce Company, Ltd., cabled as follows: Market quiet. Butter, 166 s to 170 s. Cheese, 96s to 98s. Weather njild and a large early European production is expected. MINING NEWS ALBURN I A. —The manager reports as follows:—“The drive on the dropper has been advanced from 2S2ft, making a total distance of 297 ft north from the crosscut. The leader is maintaining its size, about 12in in width, and the quartz which has a good appearance is still showing a little fine-grained antimony and is accompanied by a good class of mineral. The country rock is a little firmer than that previously passed through and is now showing a few nice mineral seams.”