PRICE OF BUTTER.
A firm- well known in New Zealand, in accounting for the recent advance in the price of butter, points out that the total imports of butter into the United Kingdom were only about 1000 tons greater tluin in 1910, whereas the requirements for consumption increased about 7000 tons a year, so that there was manifestly an actual shortage of 6000 tons. Nor does thin take into account that the Home production also showed a great shortage on account of . the abnormally dry summer, a shortage which might be -viiniatext at "OHO
tons. There must also be taken into consideration the strong demand through improved trade conditions at Home, which must have been a factor in enhancing values. On the other hand, the increase in price is attributed in some quarters to the operations of trusts or combines practically effecting a corner in butter. But it would seem that every influence which lias had a tendency to an increased demand and a hardening of prices, could be traced to natural rather than to artificial causes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 4
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177PRICE OF BUTTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10581, 12 March 1912, Page 4
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