THAT "DEAL" IN BUTTER
\ PROMISE OF BELIEF FOB CUSTOMERS. "I want to ask tho Prime Minister," ftaid Dr. Newman in the House of Repre. pentatives yesterday, "whether seeing ho 'has bought a quantity of butter at a shilling a pound, ho will reduce tho •prico to tho consumers m Wellington. The reference was to a "bargain" made between the Prime Minister and Mr. T. M. Hornsby in. tho House tho previous ovening. wheii Mr. Ilornsby undertook on behalf of the fanners to sell to the Government butter now in cold stores at Is. a pound. Mr. Massey replied: The .butter the honourable member has to has 3iot yot been liandod, over to the Government, "although I have no doubt that the member for Wairarapa is n.akiag fhe necessary arrangements. Mr. Ilornsby: Yes, that's so. Mr. Massey: Aa soon as the butter comes into the possession of the Government I will see that tho people of tho country get tho benefit.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3164, 16 August 1917, Page 5
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160THAT "DEAL" IN BUTTER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3164, 16 August 1917, Page 5
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