BUTTER PRICES
Increase in N.Z. TO EQUALISE EXPORT PRICE. r Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 30. In accordance with the procedure to ensure a like return to the dairy farmer for butter sold on the local market, as is realised by the sale of butter to the Government for export, the Minister of Marketing (Hon. W. Nash), announced this evening that as from December 1, the price of first grade patted creamery butter to shopkeepers would be Is 4id per pound. There will be corresponding adjustments for other grades of butter. This price, said the Minister, will ensure an actual recovery from the consumer by the Department of the amount paid to the dairy farmer in accord with the price guaranteed for the current season. The allowance to the wholesaler for distribution will remain the same.
A “Gazette” notice fixing these prices will be published to-morrow.
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Grey River Argus, 1 December 1938, Page 7
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146BUTTER PRICES Grey River Argus, 1 December 1938, Page 7
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