BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 179, 18 April 1918, Page 8

BUTTER

; GOVERNMENT PURCHASE •.CEASES' ! . : THE MAXIMUM-PRICE 1 A. Gazette notice issued yesterday ! states .that the purchase of butter by the ! Department of Imperial Supplies hns i ceased, .It 13 considered that all but--1 ler of this season's manufacture not already ;.in the grading stores, together j v.ith -a certain proportion of the butter 1 already; In the grading stores, is required ! for ( local consumption within Now Zealand. ■ No butter of a quality fit for local con- !,• sumption Till hereafter be made the sub- ; ject of purchase by the Government or of advances by the Government unless it was in the grading stores ou April 16. ' ~'. Butter'at present in the stores, on which advances have not been made, will not j he purchased "excopt suoh proportion , thereof as in the opinion of the C'on- ! trailer''of the Department of li'iperinl \ Supplies; is, not required for locafcon- ' . sumption and is,exportable surplus aci cordwgly." !. ' The maximum price of butter ns sold I Viy the manufacturer and delivered in i boxes at the factory op the usual trade !■ terms is fixed at Is. sd. per pound. j;''.. In the case of butter sold in boxes \>f f the manufacturer otherwise than for delivery 'at the factory, on the usual trade | terms,! the maximum price is a price : . equivalent as Tegards the seller to Ike i- maximum price above-mentioned. : The -maximum price of butter as sold !' by the retailer is Is. Bd. per pound. t ■ .'..!' :