PRICES FOR BUTTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 4

PRICES FOR BUTTER.

1 WHAT DEPRESSES THEM. The big discrepancy in the prices ruling in the London, market for New Zealand butter, as compared with Danish, has been the subject of a good deal of comment amongst those interested in the dairy produce of the Dominion. A communication which Mr A. McFarlane, president of the National Dairy Association, and chairman of the Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company, has just received from Messrs Mills and Sparrow, London, throws some light on the subject. The firrir says -that there is no doubt that New Zealand butter to-day should be selling, at 6s to 8s per cwt. M least more than it commands, and it is simply because there are two many weak agents, who are spoiling the trade that better prices are not obtained. It is pointed out that one factor in connection with the lower range of price is the fact that the total imports into Great Britain for the last eight weeks, as compared with the same eight weeks last yeaf, show an increase of over 25,000 boxes weekly. This extra- quantity had to be marketed, and it has only been possible under existing circumstances to market it on a lower basis of prices. THe writer says there is no doubt that the New Zealand dairy produce business can be put on a very much better basis than it is to-day, but the National Dairy Association will have to go in for a strong policy, stick to this policy through thick and thin, and get the- co-operaiion of chairmen of dairy companies in New Zealand.—' Herald.