BUTTER PRICES IN LONDON
EXCEEDINGLY KEEN COMPETITION {Ree. October 19, 10.15 p.m.)
London, October 18. Butter.—The shortage is acute. It ii quoted at 150s. About 42,000 boxes of! New Zealand have arrived in London.; There is the keenest competition at ■ maximum prices. It is reported that the Government is offering 1575. per cent, f.o.b. lor Kβ*-. Zealand's butter output. . ■. The Australian Butlor Committee has, writen to Lord Khondda, Food Control-; ler, protesting against the difference'ia the price of Australian and New Zealand "butter, which, it contends, ought" not to exceed 1?. per cwt. A deputation under the auspices of/the National Dairy Association of New Zeai land waited on Lord Ehondda, uigin? him to raise the maximum price of Iseir - Zealand-butter to a. parity with thafeof Irisa creamery, which is now ffi,te: Lord Raondda promised to give the master fcho f uUcst. consideration.—Aus.-K. l>. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 22, 20 October 1917, Page 9
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