CANADA'S CHEESE MARKETS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 45, 15 August 1911, Page 8

CANADA'S CHEESE MARKETS

COMPETITION FROM NEW ZEALAND. In an article, dated June 22, dealing with Canada's cheese markets, Mr. J. J. Ruddick, Dominion Dairy Commissioner, makes reference to New Zealand as under:— The situation in the markets of Great Britain in regard to Canadian cheese lias changed somewhat since the New Zealand imports have become a factor in the trade. The shipments of New Zealand! cheese have increased from 9,000,000 pounds for the year endin<* June 30, 1904, to 50,000,000 pounds for the same period ending in 1910. It will depend very largely on the relative price of butter and cheese whether the increase will 'be continued or not. Private advices from New Zealand intimate tha.t the season began very badly with cold weather and much lack of rain in some districts, and that the cheese 'shipments for the season just beginning are much smaller than thev were last year.

The arrival of 50,000,000 pounds of ; N ow Zealand cheese on the market during our winter months has lessened the speculative demand for Canadian cheese to supply the winter trade, but we gain fioiu the fact that a larger proportion of our summer cheese is now wanted for immediate consumption, and a higher level of prices is now maintained durlnL -oP en ? d of production. Mr. Ruddick points out that it is rather remarkable that the increase in New Zealand receipts for the year endTL T n lo ' aS COm P" ed w 'th 1004, should tally so closely with the decrease from _ Canada for the same period. The difference between the increase on the one hand a.nd the decrease on the other was only 535,200 pounds, the decrease from Canada being that much less than the increase from New Zealand. 1 do not want anyone to imagine for a moment that Canada hns lost, or is yet anywhere near losing, her premier position in the cheese markets . (,reat Britain," concluded the Commissioner. <We still supply about 05 pel cent, of the total imports, and 77 per cent, of the kind which we make, and. apart from the green condition, the quality of our cheese hns improved of late years."