RAMS FOR WAIKATO

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 603, 4 March 1929, Page 12

RAMS FOR WAIKATO

SHIPMENT FROM LYTTELTON The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Hamilton, reports receiving a consignment of Southdown rarns from Lyttelton on Thursday last. The animals were shipped at Ly’ttelton, and transferred to a river steamer at the Waikato Heads. This is the lirst instance of livestock being brought direct to the Waikato by boat from the South Island. PRODUCE BOARD REPORT MARKET PRICES (From Our Own Correspondent) WELLINGTON, Sunday. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board has received the following market report from its London office, dated ! March 1, prices for last week being in parentheses:— Butter.—New Zealand: Salted. 16Ss to 172 s (170 s to 1745); unsalted, ISOs to 182 s (lS2s to lS6s); first whey, 164 s (1645); second whey, 162 s (1625). Deliveries, i New Zealand, this week. 1,850 tons. In i store. 2,850 tons. Australian: Salted. 16Ss to 170 s (170 s to 1745); unsalted. 174 s to 178 s (178 s to 182 s). Argentine: Finest j unsalted, 168 s to 172 s (176 s to 178 s). Danish f.0.b., ITSs (185 s); spot, 184 sto lSt’.s (191 sto 1925). Dutch creamery: l*nsalted. 108 s to 202 s (204 s to 2065). Dei mand slow. New Zealand retail price reduced to Is 9d. Danish retail price re--1 duced to Is lOd. i Cheese.—New Zealand: White, S4s to Sss <S4s to 80s); coloured, 90s to 91s (S6s to SSs). Deliveries, New Zealand, this In store, 19,295 j crates. Demand good after quiet open- : ing. Retail price unchanged. Canadian: White, 106 s to 112 s (108 s to 112 s); colI <»ured, 106 s to 110 s (106 s to 112 s). Mar- ) ket steady. English: Finest farmers', 142 s | to 144 s (1425). The board has also received the fol--1 lowing advice from its agents in Canada:—Butter, New York, 50 cents (2s Id); Montreal, 42* cents (Is 9 3-Sd). Butter stocks in Montreal, 38,000 boxes (last year 65.500 boxes). The board has been advised with regard to f.o.b. sales of cheese that several factories have received offers of S:ld f.0.b.. for the balance of the season’s make. This is equivalent approximately to 95s a cwt, landed sale terms.