BUTTER PURCHASE
STATEMENT BY AUSTRALIAN AIINISTER NEGOTIATIONS IN PROGRESS WITH NEW ZEALAND REGARDING EXPORT QUANTITIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day.. The Minister of Commerce (Sir Earle Page) said he expected that the Australian butter purchased by Britain for the 1941-42 season would be about sixty per cent of the amount taken last year. Britain had named the total she was prepared to buy from both Australia and New Zealand and negotiations were now proceeding between these two Governments as to how the Quantity should be allocated. It. was expected that the i'.o.b. contract prices for butter would be the same as those of last year. Britain would purchase 40,000 tons of cheese for 1941-42. douole the quantity of last year. The prices had yet to be confirmed, but he believed they would be substantially above last year’s f.o.b. contract prices.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 6
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147BUTTER PURCHASE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 6
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