N.Z. BUTTER IN CANADA

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1926, Page 4

N.Z. BUTTER IN CANADA

| BREAKS FOCAL PRICES, j Some weeks hack it was reported that Alberta J armors had made an ar- [ rangement with Vancouver merchants Ito keep out New Zealand butter. This Is confirmed in an article published in the “ Vancouver Province,” which refers to a shipment of New Zealand butter that recently arrived at. that port. The article is as follows: Rutter is down, from two to three cents a pound. this is the first change that has taken place locally in this commodity for several months, a wholesale basis of -IS cents a pound having been maintained since the fall. To-day the quotation among the wholesale dealers runs from 4~> to 40 cents a pound, top grade.

The decline has been brought about by the importation of nearly 8000 boxes nr -1(8.000 pounds of butter from New Zealand last week.

A big outcry is likely to lie heard on the prairies against foreign butter having been brought in to break the home market, in view of the fact that the Alberta and some of the other prairie creameries had entered into an agreement with local dealers that they would supply the Vancouver market all winter at a price that would be almost competitive with New Zealand. That agreement has been adhered to by the local dealers and the prairie creameries. Last week, however, there was delivered to one of the large companies handling all kinds of provisions a total «f fiStlS boxes of New Zealand butter, which, according to report, was laid down in Vancouver at less than forty cents a pound. Some of this quantity is said to he for Eastern Canada, but the belief is entertained on Water street that the hulk of it will he ronsumed in British Columbia, since it is hardly to he expected that prairie people will buy butter that is competitive with their own domestic supply. j