PROSPECTS FOR BUTTER AND CHEESE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 48, 30 November 1899, Page 13

PROSPECTS FOR BUTTER AND CHEESE.

The Agricultural department have received a report from Mr. H. C. Cameron, inspector of New Zealand produce in London, dated the 20th ult., in which he says that everything points to a scarcity in Great Britain of the choicest qualities of butter. The « make ' at Home and on the Continent is short, and as cold and wintery weather has set in the quantity that will come from Australia should not frighten holders. He does not anticipate any further reduction in prices. Many people, he explains, are of the opinion that there will be higher quotations for cheese, but of this he is doubtful. He adds that the largest consumers of cheese are the middle and working classes, and when it gets high in price the consumption of it suffers at once. The working classes can get meat so cheaply nowadays that they are not at all dependent on cheese, and only use it when it is reasonably cheap.