BUTTER IN WELLINGTON.
REDUCTION IN PRICE.; GROCERS GET ONLY THE DISCOUNT. , Some of the city grocers on Saturday last were informed by the delivery man of their butter merchant that the price of butter would bo reduced this week. This goes to strengthen the rumour previously spread that tho_ merchants intended to re-adjust prices this week. Even in Auckland,'where the most sensational predictions of all as to high prices for tho winter had their origin, a calmer tono now prevails, and the improved growth of food is regarded there as, at least, a bar to dearer butter. Tho season has not been a ' happy one for tho grocers. One of them declared that it had been the worst season he had experienced: the high pneo had caused them a loss rathfer than increased profit. "We get : nothing," he said, "but the discount. Here you are"— and he produced invoices. " I am charged 13. od. a pound for the butter that I sell again at that price. I get nothing but the discount; and there are ways in which I could lose even that." •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 2
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183BUTTER IN WELLINGTON. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 165, 6 April 1908, Page 2
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