THE COST OF LIVING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 196, 18 August 1913, Page 9

THE COST OF LIVING.

BUTTER AND MLLK CHEAPER. In all families the price of butter, milk and eggs is a __tttex of conside.-_.bie ——- porta—ce. and _s this depends to a great extent upon the advent of wanner weather. '" Come, gentle Spring; ethereal mildness come," ha 4 more th—n usual significance this winter, _s prices ha.d reached a high level. This was due to the fact that the high prices ruling for butter, milk, and eggs during the weteokl season, were owing to the longeo—Hnued drought last summer, and tbe fact that when the rain did set in late during the autumn, the weather was too cold to permit of the growth of pasture lvefore winter. The result was a shortage of greeoi feed, and also of milk and butter. *Wbem the stocks of butter ioi cool storage had dropped to a very small

total compare— with other years, the price was put up, in order to lessen the demand until the spring weather set in. The result was that for about a month, bertt factory butter has been celling retail _t the high rate of 1/5 per lb. Tlie mild we—.bher lately has had a good effect on the p_-tirre, _nd tlie cows are also coming in, therefore the wholesale price of butter wa-s reduced to-day to 1/H wholesale, which means 1/3 retail. Milk •has also been reduced from to-day from ■"•'d. to 4d. per quart retail. Eggs arc still quoted at 1/2 per dozen retail.