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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 88, 12 January 1928, Page 6

pwaw - Mr. G. Rogers, of Tururutangi has shown in some old factory ’ returns, which furnish an interesting comparison (states the “Taranaki News”) of the prices advanced for butter-fat. The returns are all for the month of December In 1909 the advance was Dfd.; 1910, 10|d.; 1911, IOJd.; 1912, lljd.; 1913, Is.; 1914, 10|d.; 1915, Is. 2d.; 1916, Is.; 1917, Is.; 1918, Is. Within Mr. Rogers’s recollection summer butter was sold at 4|d. per lb., and carried to the store in a milk pan so that it would not run away. Since 1918, of course, much higher prices than those for the ten years quoted have been received, but the cost of production has increased greatly. “Before we had Mr. Sidey’s time I wanted it; now that we have it, I would rather be without it,” said a Timaru business man (reports the “Herald”), and this notwithstanding the fact that the new time had been the means of securing for him two breakfasts one morning last week. One breakfast he had before he left home in the early hours, and the other, significantly enough, he enjoyed at Stew Point, in the Rangitata Gorge. He had left Titnhru according to the new time, but the owner of the Stew Point station which he visited would have none of if, and as he was just getting out of bed when the other arrived, the latter scored A second breakfast that morning.