BUTTER AND CHEESE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 342, 1 May 1928, Page 12

BUTTER AND CHEESE

OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS Under date April 27 the London Office of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board cabled as follows,, the. previous week’s quotations being given in parentheses: —■ Butter New Zealand: Salted, 164 s to 166 s (166 s to 168 s); unsalted, 166 s to 170 s (168 s, 1745, up to 1765). Deliveries of New Zealand this week are 1,180 tons; in store, 5,380 ; Finest salted, 152 s to 1565; unsalted, 152 s to 156 s (156 s to 160 s). Argentine: Finest unSalted, 152 s to 156 s Irish creamery: Salted, 164 sto 168 s (16Ss); unsalted, 166 sto 170 s (170 s). Danish: Spot, 180 s to 182 s (178 s to 180 s); f.0.b., 1725, 173 s to 1745. Dutch cramery: Unsalted, 168 s to 172 s (168 s to 1725). „ „ Estonian: 168 s to 170 s (168 s to 170 s). Latvian: 168 s to 170 s (166 s to 168 s). Siberian: 152 s to 154 s (154 s to 1565). Market slow owing to large arrivals from Australia. Retail prices: New Zealand, ls Sd; Danish, Is 9d. Cheese New Zealand: White and coloured, 96s to 97s (96s to 98s). Canadian: Finest white, 110 s to 114 s (108 s to 112 s); coloured, 104 s to 110 s (104 s to 106 s). Australian: Finest coloured, 93s to 94s (94s to 955). Market quiet. Retail prices unchanged. North American Prices The board has also received the following advice from its agents in Canada: Butter: New York, 45 cents (ls Montreal, 37J cents (ls 6 - 2 d); San Francisco, 40 cents (ls Sd). MEAT FOR OVERSEAS INCREASE IN SHIPMENTS Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Special returns supplied by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board for six and a-half months of current season to April 15, show increases in shipments of all classes of frozen meat compared with the corresponding period of last season. Killings of stock for export during tlie same period show a small increase in lamb, a decrease in mutton, and large increases in pork and beef. An analysis of returns gives the following increases in shipments of frozen meat from the Dominion from October 1, 1927, to April 15, 1928, compared with the corresponding period of last season:—Lamb, 896,710 carcases; mutton, 116,794 carcases; beef, 108,752 quarters; pork, 18,177 carcases. Killings of stock for export during the same periods afford the following comaprison; Lamb, an increase of 179,616 carcases; mutton, a decrease of 230,540 carcases; pork, an increase of 60,372 carcases; beef, an increase of 183,851 quarters, and 53,982 freight carcases of boneless beef. Total shipments of frozen meat from October 1, 1927, to April 15, 1 928 were: Beef, 130,676 quarters; mutton, 928,894 carcases; lamb, 3,007,824 carcases; pork, 69,190 carcases. TUAKAU STOCK SALE Dalgety and Company Limited report having held their usual monthly sale at Tuakau, when 549 head of cattle came forward. Owing to the inclement weather there was not a very large attendance of buvers. Competition was dull and values generally were slightly easier than our previous sale. Several lines of cattle were passed under the hammer, but practically the whole yarding was sold afterwards with the exception of one line of 54 bullocks: —3 pens P.A. and Hereford 4-year-old bullocks in very fresh condition, £lO 2s 6d: 3 pens 41-year-old S.H. bullocks in fresh condition, £9 ss; 1 pen 4-vear-old S.H. bullocks, £9; other 4-year bullocks, £S ss, £8 10s, £S 16s; 42 31 and 41-year bullocks in store con, dition, £7 2s 6d: 3-year-old Hereford bullocks, £7 10s; small 3-year Hereford bullocks in store condition, £6 15s; 2! and 3-year-old S.H. steers, £5 14s, £6, £6 3s; 21-year steers, £4 10s, £5 12s 6d: fat and forward cows, £5 15s to £5 17s: other store cows, £2 14s to £4 15s; fat maiden heifers, £6, £6 ss: cull cows, 255, £2; heifers, R.W.8., £4 15s to £6 10s: best dairy cows, £9 11s: backward cows, £4 15s to £6 10s; mother reared calves, £2 9s; other store calves, £l, £1 4s to £2; mixed cull and heifer calves, £1 Ss, £1 11s/ £1 19s, £2.