BUTTER FOR AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 91, 17 April 1923, Page 8

BUTTER FOR AUSTRALIA

Owing to the shortage of supplies of "choicest" butter, moderate importations into Victoria have been made from Queensland. Victorian importers, however, have gone farther afield, and a quantity of choicest butter has Been purchased in New Zealand for shipment to that State. Eeports in Melbourne are that the quality of Queensland butter is not meeting with the approval of the trade. Sellers of butter in Queensland have never been noted for treating Victoria otherwise than in a strictly business spirit when it has been necessary for Victoria to augment supplies of choicest butter by importing from other States. Queensland suffered a similar experience not long ago, -when it sought to force Victoria to pay famine rates, and became indignant at the prospect' of New Zealand competition, and there was an outcry from interests for an increased > duty on Dominion butter. Perhaps news of the purchases lately made will again induce a call for higher duties from the northern State of the Commonwealth.

Messrs. Vino and Wilson will sell electrical goods dn their mart. Dominion avenue, at 10.30 to-morrow morning: also at 2 p.m., household furniture and eSeots. At 2.30 in the mart they wil} offer a nil-roomed residence, as advertised. Cm Saturday at 2 p.m. a sale will take plaoa on the premises, 26, Coutts street, KilViirtue.