BUTTER SHORTAGE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 5

BUTTER SHORTAGE.

PRICES ADVANCED,

BY CABLE—PEESS TSSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Mar. 24. A shortage of butter supplies is causing anxiety.

An importer says the arrival of the steamers Surrey and Moreton Bay, with 57,000 boxes of Australian and the Mahana with 13,000 boxes of NewZealand butter, will have little effect in remedying the shortage, as a large portion of the consignments has been booked en route, and little of the remainder is expected to come on the open market.

Two steamers from New Zealand are due in the next few days, but on the other hand the absence of shipments from Australia next month, owing, inter alia, to allocations for fruit, is likely to aggravate the conditions, though supplies will be .arriving from Ireland, and possibly from France.

Official prices of Australian and New Zealand butter at noon to-day were respectively 170s and 180s per cwt, wholesale, which is a further all-round increase.