DEAR BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 7

DEAR BUTTER

PERTINENT QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. Another question was asked about the price of butter in Wellington by Dr. Newman, in the House of Kepresentatives yesterdajr. Dr. Newman said that in Wellington the price of butter was still Is. Sd., whereas in Auckland butter was obtainable for Is. sd. He asked whether anything was being done by the Board of Trade or by. the Government to control the price .of butter. Mr. Massey said that the. maximum price of Is. Bd.. per pound still stood. Butter could not bo sold at a higher price than. this, and information had reached him through the Board of Trade that butter was'.being sold in Wellington :at Is. 6d. per pound. •■ Dr. Newman: Not the best brands? ■ Mr. Massey. could not answer as to this. ~,. ~' •Dr.- Newman: WJiy. should 'fife'prico ■be Is. Sd.'.'in. .Wellington.'when it is: Is. sd. -in-your- own meat shops in Auck-' land?.. ".: ;■; ■ Mr. Massey said that two months ago the owners .of: butter in this country were afraid that they would not get their butter away ] from New , Zealand, a slump, and butter was sold at Is.. 3id. per pound. But as soon as ,the owners of the butter discovered that the congestion of butter'would be relieved at the end of the season the price of butter went -up twopence a pound.