BUTTER IMPORTED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 17 June 1911, Page 7

BUTTER IMPORTED.

' AUSTRALIAN PRODUCT ON

WELLINGTON MARKET

The statement of certain dairy factory authorities that tlie retail price of butter, would reach Is 6d per pound in the Dominion this winter, owing to tho shortage of supplies, caused rather a flutter among some merchaiit firms, who feared, that there was d "ring" in operation to keep up the price of this * In view of the plentiful supplies , reported' in Australia, whore first-grade butter during the last few week® has been selling on the local market at several pence per pound cheaper than New Zealand-manufactured butter, a local firm cabled an order to Sydney for supplies (says the N.Z. Times). The Moeraki on Wednesday brought over 100 cases, now placed in cold storage in "Wellington, with a view +o the market.- here' being tested with New South Wales butter. The ship'r ment is of tho first grade, selling in Sydney at less than lid per pound. Butter of similar quality cannot be obtained from the factories here under Is ld:. Adding the 20 per cent, duty the imported butter can be sold at Is 2d pei* pound retail. / "I hear," remarked a city merchant to a Times reporter on Thursday, "that the South Island market will be tested with a shipment of butter from Melbourne, letter steams-hip communication existing between the South with Melbourne-than with Sydney. The quality of the shipment <>f New South Wales butter now in "Wellington' should convince people who talk a lot that just as good butter c;m be manufactured in Australia as in New Zealand."

A deputation from the Wellington Tradesl and Labor Council-was to wait on the Bon. 11. McTCenzie, ActingMinister for Customs, yesterday afternoon, with a request that butter be brought within the operations of tho Prevention of Monopolies Act. .