LESS BUTTER NOW HELD IN COOL STORES OF N.Z.
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 11. “Owing to the improved shipping position the quantity of butter in cool stores this year is actually less than in previous years,” said the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr. A. H. Nordmeyer, in a telegram to the New Zealand Master Grocers’ Federation.
The Minister was replying to a suggestion made at the federation’s annual conference that it would take eight months to shift the quantity of butter in cool stores at Wellington.
“Stocks throughout New Zealand on January 31, including current loadings, totalled 32,000 tons,” said Mr. Nordmeyer. “A year ago the stocks totalled 45,000 tons and two years ago the figure was 37,000 tons.”
Mr. Nordmeyer added that less than 2 per cent of New Zealand’s exportable surplus butterfat had been exported this year to countries other than the United Kingdom.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22869, 12 February 1949, Page 6
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