PRICE OF BUTTER
"NO REASON FOR THE INCREASE." Yesterday the Prime Minister informed a reporter that he intended to arrange with tho Minister of Customs to take tlio import duty o/f butter until tlio new season'B supply- was available. This would ba done at once. Asked if this would affect tlio price of butter to the New Zealand consumer, Mr. Massey, paid it would enable butter to be obi tained from America or anywhere else, if merchants required it or cared to get jt. The difficulty Wa6 that we were so near to the new season's supplies. As far as he was able to judge, there were , ample'supplies in hand in the country, to last until the new season, and he paw no reason for the inorease that had ' taken place in the price of butter.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 16 July 1915, Page 4
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136PRICE OF BUTTER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 16 July 1915, Page 4
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