NO FAMINE IN BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 157, 27 March 1908, Page 2

NO FAMINE IN BUTTER.

" Provor," of the ;" Otogo Witness," opl*„ phasises the,'contention;- which Tot: Dominion has "all along put forward, ■- that thoro ill be no scarcity-of butter in the local markets this winter " Ho cops further, and declares, that thoro wo 35,000 bosas already' in stows. In tho " Witnoss." this weok, bo says:— ■. '' The butter market' ill London is rapidly falling, 1 and shipments, arc now. held lack in the Dominion..- Thero are now , about 35,000 boscs of butter in cold store, and by the end of April '^his will bo /largely in. i creased, so there will , no . butter , famine, as pr<;dicted_by. some alarmists. Iha high price,? 150s. per cwt., which butter readied in Londou Ava? tho ropultj as,l of gambling heavily on a temporary shortage. Tho bulls, and the bears had a great time, and ■ somo ' London ; firms have paid over largo sumsMn the-settlement of their , gambling. Some won,'while others lost' heavilv. During tho time of tho wtcitcmontj.*., when'butter was 1455. to'--lSOs.,' .tho Homo , an(P. Colonial Stores had showy ad vortisoments, Finest Butter, Is. Id.' (equal_ to about 1215.), and other large distributing firms had to follow suit, This can hardly ~ be railed business, but it. is what goes on constantly now."-., ■