NOT SATISFACTORY.
THE BUTTER MARKET
FARMERS’ HARD STRUGGLE
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.--Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 7.
Reviewing the imported dairy produce trade of 1936-37 Messrs W. Weddel, Ltd., declared to-day that, although there was slightly more business and better prices than in the previous year, the financial result at both ends was far from satisfactory. The average price of all imported butter, exceeding Danish, was under £IOO a ton and it was a hard struggle for Dominion farmers to make a living at that figure without a subsidy. Higher retail prices would not solve the producers’ problem; as soon as the price goes above 14d a SS. the consumers will turn to margarine.
AFRICA BUYS BUTTER. PRECAUTION - AGAINST DROUGHT. CAPETOWN, Sept. 8. The South African Dairy Control Board has ordered butter from overseas as a precautionary measure against the continuance of the dror~V..
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1937, Page 4
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