ACUTE BUTTER SHORTAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10113, 22 October 1917, Page 6

ACUTE BUTTER SHORTAGE.

| ENGLISH, QUOTATION OVER- 4s. j (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ; Ci'iru Fbesb Association.) I.ONDOiN, Oct. is. I I The shortage of but tor is acute, and | ! butter is quoted at 4nos per ewt (over 4s per lb). About 42,000 boxes of New. Zealand butter have arrived in London. | There is the keenest competition at maximum prices. I It is reported that the Governmentis offering Id7s nor ewt 1.0.b. lor New j Zealand’s butter output. The Australian Butter Committee has j written to Lord Rhondda, Food Con-; I trollor, protesting against the difference in the price ot Australian ami j New Zealand butter, which, it contends, ought not to exceed 4s per ewt. _ 1 A deputation under the auspiees_ of j the National Dairy Association ol New . Zealand waited l on Lord Rhondda, urg-J ing him to raise the maximnni price ol ; New Zealand butter to a parity with | that ol Irish creamery, winch is now I 2245. Lord Rhondda promised to give; the matter the fullest consideration. [The price 47,0s per ewt is open to question. 1