THE PRODUCE MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10525, 12 January 1912, Page 4

THE PRODUCE MARKET.

Mr J. R. Scott, secretary of the South Island Dairying Association, Sipoke very cheerfully this week about the present state and the immediate prospects of the produce markets. He said: "My. advices are to the effect that first-ga-ade salted -butter is 13&s to ,137s per cwt in- London, that the market there is excited, and further advances are. exrpected. First grade. New Zealand wbite cheese is at /4s„ and colored 73s per cwt. Tins, means (that butter is -worth .about Is id 1f.0.b. and cheese about 6i}d f.o.ib. Those few of our growers * are consigning have therefore excellent prospects, and it- is satisfactory to know that the persons who bought the builik of bur butter and cheese at good prices, are doing well, because this will encourage them- to come again next year, as is always the case in suelTcircumstances, and there will be freer barring. The increase in the Vancouver * and San Erancisco trade is also very stimulating. Y\e have now got to an output of 9000 boxes, of (butter per month, and much more would be taken by those ports iilf it was available, but our produce is mostly tied to London. Over Is is offering on Vancouver and San F.rancisco buttar. Our output up to the present this, season shows very llititle increase as comipared with thej (period last year, owiing (to the cold j and wet weather, hut with the genial sunshine that is now fairly assoiredi] we reckon that the output for the whole season, will be considerably j greater fthaii for last season." ]