Better and Cheese Market.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4481, 28 October 1909, Page 3

Better and Cheese Market.

Messrs E. Griffith’s & Co. are in receipt of the following market report from their London Principals, Mills and Sparrow, dated September 10th, 1909 The weather continues both rainy and cold, but it is really good for the consumption of butter. Danish.—The quotation has been raised two kroner. Hitherto the quotation has always been fixed on the prospective values of Danish butter in the United Kingdom, but it is now proposed to fix it on the actual prices that it is realizing on the British markets. This has been brought about by a Confer' euce held between the Danish Association of lamers and Merchants, and the British Importers and it has been arranged that from every possible centre where Danish butter is sold in England, there shall be a committee to report on the state iof the markets and selling values, and the advices are to be wired to Copenhagen weekly, so that the Committee will have them before fixing the quotation, It is to be hoped that this new arrangement will work satisfactorily. Irish.—The quality does not Beem quite so good this week, and with the exception of a little higher price for unsalted butter, there is no further advice to report. French.—As supplies are decreasing, and the demand has been fairly well maintained, prices during the week have advanced 2s to 4s.

Siberian.—Arrivals this week only amounted to 7,000 casks, but for next week we expect a little more, so we can only assume that the shortage this week has been caused through someof the butter having been kept back, as the supply during September should average about 10,000 casks per week. There has been a good demand for all finest grades, and they cleared readily at full rates. For secondary quality the trade is not quite so good, but the butter just manages to clear by the end of the week. Colonial.—The stored butters continue to find a few buyers, but a small shipment of winter made New South "Wales butter came to hand this week per s.s. “ Dorset,” and realised fairly high figures, isome unsalted making up to 11 os and though the quality was not the best we have ever seen, it was fairly good, and buyers are eager after good butter just now.

Cheese (Canadian).—The trade continues quiet, and some agents are taking slightly lower rates than last week.

New Zealand. —The s.s. Wakanui has arrived, but the cheese have not turned out in very good order. They have evidently been carried at too high a temperature. This is rather a pity, as there were many first-class buyers who were ready to take the cheese, if they had been up to the usual standard.