POLITICAL.
THE BUTTER SHORTAGE. AN AUCKLAND INCIDENT QUESTIONED. (By Wire.—Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Night. Mr. S. G. Smith has given notice to ask the Minister in charge of Imperial Government supplies if it is true that the present shortage of butter in the Dominion is due mainly to the Department in charge ol Imperial Government supplies having allowed an over-export of butter, and if it is true that the Department in charge of Imperial Government supplies, having discovered that too much butter had been allowed to go out of the country, did endeavor, in June last, to have relanded from the I'aparoa, the nlying at Auckland wharf, 10,000 boxes of butter, but that negotiations fell through because the shipping company Intimated that the cost of relanding the butter would be approximately £6OOO. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1919, Page 5
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132POLITICAL. Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1919, Page 5
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