BUTTER DEARER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 44, 1 December 1938, Page 4

BUTTER DEARER.

INCREASE OF 2d PER POUND. HIGHEST FOR MANY YEARS. TO PAY COMPENSATED PRICE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 30. In accordance with the procedure to ensure a like return to the dairy farmer for butter sold on the local market as is realised by the sale of butter to the Government for export, the Minister for Marketing (the Hon. AY. Nash) announced this evening that, as from December 1, the pride of first grade patted creamery butter to shopkeepers would be Is 4)d a pound. There will be corresponding adjustments for other grades of butter. “This price,” said the Minister, “will ensure the actual recovery from the consumer by the Department of the amount paid to the dairy farmer in accord with the price guaranteed for the current season. The allowance to the wholesaler for distribution will remain the same.

‘‘A Gazette notice fixing these prices will be published to-morrow.”

THE PRICE IN ASHBURTON. The old price to shopkeepers of first grade patted creamery butter was Is and the retail price was Is 4d, a difference of l£d. Some shops in Ashburton started to sell butter at Is Gj-d this morning, but later reduced the price to Is 6d. No advice had been received up to 2 p.m. as to the price that will be finally fixed. At Is 6d butter is dearer than it . has been for many years.