DAIRY PRODUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1922, Page 7

DAIRY PRODUCE.

THE KEEN DEMAND FOR CHEESE. Cheese outputs made up to the end of the year in the South Island in many eases have been sold at 8d to SAd f.o.b. There are now offers of 9d going the round of cheese-making factories in the North Island and in the South. On tne other hand the policy of factories in Taranaki is strictly one of consignment. At 126 s per cwt., the price quoted by London cable on Saturday by the New Zealand Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Association, it is worth lid per pound here, so that there is littie likelihood of 9d being sufficiently attarctive to make directors of cheese factories alter their minds from adhering to their consigning policy. The same holds good with respect to butter, although the outlook for that is by no means bright at present. It was pointed out, however, that exception must be made of some of the smaller concerns who might be disposed to let a good priee slip by, whether for butter or cheese; but the bulk of the produce, possibly 80 per cent., will go forward on consignment. Where there are dual plants for making butter or cheese, all activity is now being diverted to cheesemaking. Some factories that opened with butter are now making all the milk receivable into cheese; others will he doing so in the course of a few days. In fact there is a sort of cheese boom in Taranaki and parts of the Waikato. The cheese will go on to a hare market in England, in consequence of the shortage in the Canadian make. Butter will arrive in over-supply. Up to the middle of December 25.000 tons of New Zealand butter will be shipped, to arrive in London at the end of January. This quantity is equal to what was formerly a whole season's output —and there win be more to follow after December. With regard to the operation of the New Zealand producers' Co-operative Marketing Association, which is working in association with the Co-operative Wholesale Association o-f England, it is learned from Mr. G. S. Davidson, secretary and organiser (until recently with the' National Dairy Association) that it will dispose of 6000 tons of cheese and 2500 tons of butter of this season’s make. —Wellington Post.