BUTTER IN AUCKLAND.
An v Auckland ' telegram 7, estates Vthat the total quantity of butter stored at Auckland on Juno 4 was '20,110 ,boxes,, or 502 valued at>£-10,000. : During.the' weok 200-boxes, or five tons> were shipped' to South Africa; and' the> quantity! received : during the week from factories was 430 \ boxes, equal to'ten tons. The butter is now . coming to hand in very small, lots, only about \ half a' 'dozen factories- being still working.' A quantity of milled butter is being received from farmers. The Reason, which has' lasted for' such, a phenomenal, time, is now . practically closed, but th& butter in store is a long way mora than will ever be required for 'tha';]pcal, market during the ; winter, and' ■ the consumers are, freely, expressing the . opinion v that : prices' should fall >proportionately instead, of, remaining at a . figure set by •' drougijt conditions early ;in tho year, when supplies woro srioi;t.'.:'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 3
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151BUTTER IN AUCKLAND. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 3
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