BUTTER DEARER.
;.:.'■ WELLLNGTOiSr PRICES UP; ; i;,v: : ;'', • Encouraged,;;no:,'doubt; by the • smallness of tho. butter 'stocks: in. cold; storage, 'the.'' butter/merchants; and. agents of Wellington' prices locally yesterday,' by.ld; .per lb.-' Tho wholesale price of the; dearest brands .now. .is lljd. per lb.,' and,>in accordance with; custom; tho.' retail: price I'will' be Is. Id. This is considered by those concerned in the'trade;to bo full value. Judged in tho light- of the quantity. stored, ■ the. riso is" apparently justified, for' tho stocks in 'store in: Noiv'Zealand at the end of April were only 41,605 half-hundredweight boxes, while the quantity in store at'tho same time last;year. was :70,128 boxes.. But' tho conditions of. the two seasons'aro.very, different. The; current 'supplies, at 'the present period must bo much in excess of, the'current supplies of a year ago, and even after this: date last year butter iwas. exported. -Apparently thero is more butter in Now Zealand unaccounted for just now than usual, partly, perhaps, in private storej' and' partly labelled ostensibly for export. However, there vis no accounting for tho vagaries of a winter supply. ■';". ,-.;■ ,;..,., ; ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 501, 7 May 1909, Page 8
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179BUTTER DEARER. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 501, 7 May 1909, Page 8
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