BUTTER SUPPLIES
BRITISH TRADERS’ CRITICISM
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LONDON, November 3.
The “Daily Mail” says provision trade leaders describe the statement by the Minister for Food (Mr. W. S. Morrison) that butter cannot be stored as nonsense, and suggest that the Governemnt has not attempted to lay in adequate supplies. One dealer said: “Does Mr. Morrison know that New Zealand butter can be kept for from six to nine months? How does he suppose it travels across the world? Dominion supplies at present are ample. Moreover, New Zealand and Australia are having bumper seasons.”
EIRE EXPORTS BANNED
DUBLIN, November 3.
The Government has prohibited the export of creamery butter because of market conditions. It offers to purchase stocks of creamery butter delivered to a central store. DISTRIBUTING RATION BOOKS LONDON, November 3. The distribution of ration books has begun. The Post Office will send out 46,000,000 during the next fortnight.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1939, Page 8
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