THE BUTTER OUTPUT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 14 November 1918, Page 8

THE BUTTER OUTPUT

I. ' FORTHCOMING : PISTOBEB, . \ TO-DAY-per Hutt Yanls, 12.15 p.m.—Stock sale ;(Dalcety and Co.. X.Z. loan Co.). . Lambt'on Quay, Wellington, 1.30 p.m.— jFurniturc euie (C. IV. Price aud Go.), yn Hall. Takapau, Z p.m.—Sale of farm (property (Williams and Kettle, Murray, :Rob;rte and> Co., and Smith, Webster land Co.). . i.. ' TO-MOKKOW. ffahuiia Yards. 12 licon.—Annual spring, icattle fair. (Dalgety and ,Co. and AVai-.i irar^pa. Farmers');; ...I 3ia'rabtc» ; -Qnav, Wellington; 1.30. p.m.— [Sale of boots" and . shoes (0. AV. Price jar.d Co.'). - . . ; 'Waterloo Avenue, Xewtown, 1.50 p.m.— jFurniture sale (A. L. AFilson and Co.).

I \rraiiements have not been completed j tlw. purchase of ; thc. butter, output ' she Imperial authorilii}.-), and there hn? to be possibility that the prob! will lapse. In that ca«? the but-' '< pr iducers, according to some expert inion, may' .suffer stmim' lass, hie coition is that some weeks'ago 3 Imperial Government made an offer r New Zealand's butter for''the period s the wav .aud a .fall sea-ion after the '.i\ The prieo offered is understood jliavp bf-eh "'about liils. a cwt. vyithout jifji of jtijy -profit' made, on distribuif.\ The-representatives of the probers' aid not acropt this offer, and ide ii. cmmter-ijroposal, which was. sent [London by. tho Prime_ Minister. A. ply has since been received from the iperial authorities, but (lie producers ive i-oc given a decisive answer. I,'he cessation of hostilities- will ease 5 shipping situation quickly, oiid ii is lieved in some 'quarters that one reIt .will .bs to reluce the price of but-, on the London market.