The Butter Market.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 July 1910, Page 3

The Butter Market.

WELLINGTON'S CHEAP BATES

[PKU PBEBB AHBOO .TIQN.j WELLINGTON, July 20. A new turn was givem in the local butter war to-day, when the prico of ccritHin brands advanced id wholeMjle, to sell at Is Id per lb retail. ■All standard brands of butter are nojvonthe r ef<K>tingastopric: tutle tha/t to supply retailors with butter under 11*5 per lb entails « • k , u A C<asts almosfc *J*at. mice m bulk at the factories. The public has been getting the benefit of the computation among wholesale s.ipft"%i Tf Lonclon kee p • p noil, the wholesale average prices per ,Ib, so that an Wellington to-<l JV ooneume« .are paying leS for the • sinner. In times past this has not 'always been 't<he case. It has h"n ped thnt London retailed ? HZ bought New Zealand butter .helper •at the time tilran New Zealand .shopkeepers could buy in the country of origin. *

_ Usuaflly at this time of year .butter is locally much dearer thVn Is l<l per pound. l