CHEAP BUTTER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10033, 6 July 1910, Page 6

CHEAP BUTTER

WHOLESALE "CUTTING "

Ihe Wellington Evenirg Post of yesterday says:—There is much cutting going on in the local butter trade at the moment, and the consumer, to whom all rises are, in a general way, "passed on" is getting the benefit of it". A few d&ys ago the announcement was first made in the Post that the Wellington Butter Committee had disbanded, and that the price of butter to grocers had fallen Id per pound in consequence, namely from Is-OJd per pound wholesale, to ll&d per pound. On Saturday two firms cut the price to 10Jd per pound, the butler to sell at Is retail. Yesterday one of them returned to iljd, leaving one firm in the market selling brands which in the days ofjhe committee were sold for not a fraction under Is o|d, txcept for a discount of 2£ per cent. The 10|d is, however, net.

There were five numbers in the committee, as was pointed out m the Post, on 28th Juiy last, but outside of it were one or two firms who made a standard article, and charged the committee's price. If that went up £d, the outsiders' butter went up Id. If it came down, they came down. So there was no cutting in that quarter.