THE BUTTER SCARCITY.
SHIPMENTS TO BE 'RETURNED TO NEW V. ZEALAND. (BY . TELEGRAPH—-SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.! 1 • > Masterton;y March 17. . The threatened! exhaustion;.of the butter market in the Dominion is amply shown by the fact that the' Now Zealand Farmers' Dairy Unioii to-day .cabled to England to make arrangements, for the return of its two previous numbering 1700 boxes, to this country. ' During February the Union's manufactured butter output decreased by nearly 50' per cent, as'compared with February , of last yoar; the figures being 105 and 56 tons respectively. , At'the present timo the Union is. not manufacturing enough- butter for local' consumption, and, to make matters worse, its twenty creameries are to close down in the course of the next two weeks. Several are. now sending their milk to Wellington' at eightpence a gallon, which means almost Is. 9d. per I pound for butter. , ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 6
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142THE BUTTER SCARCITY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 6
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