IRISH BUTTER
SURPLUS FOR BRITAIN CEASES
LONDON, October 22. A special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Eire seems to have superfluous butter while Britain is rationed to two ounces a week. Irish farmers declared that Irish butter was available at 135s a hundredweight and New Zealand at 1265. They added that: the British Ministry could but would not buy the dearer Irish butter. A Government official in Eire said: "We have been shipping all possible butter. As a result of the abnormally dry weather, we have hardly enough for our own consumption and for putting in cold store for our winter needs." An official in the British Ministry of Food commented that it was not a question of Irish prices. "We con- ; tracted to take all Eire's exportable I surplus." he said. "This surplus ceased two or three weeks ago, and probably none will be available till next April or May. The Germans like to believe that they are preventing Irish agricultural products from reaching England, but U-boats are remarkably i scarce in the Irish Sea."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 12
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178IRISH BUTTER Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 12
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