The Butter Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 264, 15 March 1894, Page 3

The Butter Market.

It is complained that the want o publicity and knowledge of the price realised for Victorian butter leads t< the manipulation of the market by i " ring." While the producer gets 9< per lb after paying expenses, the saim butter brings ls 6d in the retail mar ket. The Age says, "The artich shown in tlie Imperial Institute woulc sell readily at the latter price, but tin general public do not know where t< procure it. Our correspondent says that he has actually searched man} parts of London without finding anj place where Victorian butter is pla carded and sold." A lurid light is thrown upon this statement by a re cent cablegram to the effect that "i< has been ascertained that quantities of colonial butter consigned to London are sent to Cork, and thence returned to Manchester and the North of England as Irish manufacture.'' It is suggested, says the Age, that "the real remedy is to establish in London a central depot, to be managed by a person of colonial experience, and one free from personal interest and association with commercial rings. The advantages to be derived from such an establishment would be the exercise of care iv removing the butter from the ship to the depot, its careful storage, and the public announcement of all sales so that competition should be invited. The Victorian Government seems to think that it has done all that is required by encouraging the producer at its own doors, whereas he stands most in need of its co-operation and assistance at the other end, in the centres of distribution in London and elsewhere, wliere hostile and powerful influences work against his interests. '