EXPORT OP BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 7

EXPORT OP BUTTER

- PROHIBITED BY THE: GOVERN. T) ' MENT. ' y.\A' .•.:.-;,'*.-?j-Th# l .(»sport of butter from/New Zea- /. land, except with the consent of - the Minister - of. Customs, was prohibited by, the Government yesterday. "; -5. '; - Some , weeks ago, , when- there - was ; some, outcry v about the rise - in' - the -price of . butter,. then . Is; 7d;■" per lb, .... . y retail, ; the Prime Minister issued a .warning -that any further attempt to ; iraise the price of butter; would' be-im-mediately.: followed',by total prohibition ■ of export. A telegram from, Auckland . (published on; Saturday, morning) i ' an- • enounced;that the price had been raised from Is. 7d. to Is. Bd.-, and immediately the Government took " the - drastic • factum. already mentioned. ■ ■ : I. I."- Referring. to_ the matter last night : 1 the Prime • Minister said that in about .three or four weeks hn expected that two .should have.j,much- more . butter available than we, required for our own ■ consumption, and when -this stage'was Teachcd he, would make - arrangements' for the resumption of export to Eng- ' land. At prcsout tho export' was ju-. ■most entirely to Australia, but ■ prob- . ably by the end of. three or four weeks the Australian supplies would have' increased. :. He was t sure that there was ■ no shortage of butter iu- Neivj Zealand . own requirements: ■