N.Z. Butter at 6s 3d Lb.
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WANGANUI. March 9. .Commenting tliat New Zealand should explore fresh markets for her primary produce, and that the West Coast of North America might prove profitable, the Dominion president' of Federated Farmers (Mr. W. N. Perry) aaid at a meeting in Wanganui yesterday that when in Honolulu last year he saw New Zealand butter being sold retail at the equivalent of 6s 3d a lb. He was on his way to an overseas conference at the time and had stopped for two days in Honolulu. The Aorangi had just arrived with 50 to 60 tons of butter from tlie Dominion. In a shop of the "self-help" type he met an elderly woman selling New Zealand butter. In reply to a question, she told him that it was "the best in the world.',' On learning that Mr. Perry was a New Zealander, she immediately asked: "Why don't you send us niore of that butter?" Mr. Perry explained about the needs of Great Britain and rationing in New Zealand, but the high figures asked in Honolulu for New Zealand dairy produce and nieat gave an indication of the prices people overseas were prepared to pay."
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1949, Page 6
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