SALE OF BUTTER
WHOLESALE PRICE FIXED
(Tei Press Association —Copyright).
WELLINGTON, April 8
Extensive regulations issued tonight deal with the marketing of butter within the Wellington provincial district. They provide that no butter shall be sold by any person unless a license Is first obtained from the Primary Products Marketing Department. The terms on which a license shall be granted are sot out.
The department has power to define the areas within which manufacturers or wholesale distributors may sell butter, and it may assign an area to a manufacturer or distributor. Tho rates of distribution allowances will lie gazetted from time to time. Tho price at which butter in pound pats shall be sold wholesale is :t
First grade creamery butter, 13d a pound. Second grade creamery butter, ISRI. Whey butter, 12$ d. The price of bulk butter is Jd less than the above prices.
The returns that must he submitted to the department by manufacturers are defined, and the department has the right to inspect the [Rooks of a manufacturer at all reasonable times. The premises on which butter is kept must he -approved as a. cool store. Butter lot sale must be branded or marked as required by the regulations. The regulations come into force on Mav U
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1937, Page 5
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