DOMESTIC PRICES
REDUCTION AT AUCKLAND
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, August 5.
Wholesale prices for butter in Auckland have been reduced by lid a pound and net rates from today will be: Finest grade, Is 2d; first, Is lid; second, Is Id. As the guaranteed export price has been fixed for the season, local rates, which are based on this price, will also be stabilised. Retail prices are generally 2d a pound above wholesale rates, although some stores work on a smaller margin. No control is exercised over the local market, but the Government has power to regulate domestic prices if it wishe*.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 12
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102DOMESTIC PRICES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 12
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