THE BUTTER MARKET
RISE IN WELLINGTON. The price of butter nae been raised by Id per lb'by wholesale merchants in Wellington to is 3d per lb. The retail price of .factory butter in P&hiatua is Is 2d per lb. Local storekeepers state that there is a hardening tendency, but have received. iTo intimation of a rise. One pointed out that the shipping season ended in March, and an increase now would indicate that the price iron Id ibe fairly stiff during the .winter. Another storekeeper said his firm did not anticipate any difficulty in the matter o.f supplies. , A go'od demand, he reported, existed among bis customers f or separator butter, it being Id per lb cheaper. Advice received lately by the BalVance "Dairy Company stated,, tb.'' "he "London market* had weakened . lerald. !
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10542, 26 January 1912, Page 5
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133THE BUTTER MARKET Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10542, 26 January 1912, Page 5
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