DEARER MILK
5D A QUART FROM MONDAY INCREASE ATTRIBUTED TO DRY SEASON Milk will be sold at the increased price of 5d a quart on Monday, the first of the month. This will represent an increase of Id on the present rate, at which milk ha* been selling since August 1. last, although it is a general price, and noli a standard one. Announcing this alteration to-day* the Dunedin Retail Dairymen’s Association attributes the necessity for it to the unfavourable season through' which the dairying industry has passed* and also to the poor prospects for winter feed. “Considering the very trying'summer that has been cxperineced, the new price is not out of the way,” one official commented, Fourpence a quart is cheaper than one can buy milk in any other city in New Zealnad, while even at 5d it will be below the chrage made in most other centres. _ The highest price ever charged for milk was 7d, which was some years ago, and the lowest was '3d a quart, when extensive price-cutting was being practised among milk vendors.
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Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 14
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179DEARER MILK Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 14
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