BARGAINS IN BUTTER.
TROUBLE BREWING. AN, ANGRY DEALER'S CHALLENGE. . A Dominion representative met an angry buttor-dealer yesterday.Tho conversation was about butter, and'the dealer spoke his mind bitterly about factories that had broken, their contracts. •" Why," he exclaimed, " docs ' not tho Government publish tho quantities of, butter stororl by tho various factories on the date on which tbo first ship iri April left tho port I If the Government would publish that list, and give also; tho names of tho factories, we would then' know which of them had put their buttar. into store instead'of fulfilling their export contracts'."' • Do you say some of the factork6 wilfully broke their contracts ? , "v" Certainly. I say they stored butter that, ■they had contracted to seud to Britain, and if tho Government would publish wbat I want wo should seo who had.'broken their ccntracts." ' ..' ■ Has tho . possession;; of tlio necessary evidence? ' ' ' " Tho Government has, I believe, a right of entry to any plaoo where butter is stored!" It is too le.to now? . " Perhaps not.- • Anyhow, I wish you wculd challenge the Government to publish.'the list. They think they would not. bo prosecuted? But I tell you there are going to bo prccoedings taken' already." , "■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 2
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200BARGAINS IN BUTTER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 2
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