BUTTER FROM EIRE
NONE NOW AVAILABLE i UP.A.-By Electric Telegraph— Copyright | LONDON. 22nd October. A special correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says Eire seems to have superfluous butter while Britain is rationed to two ounces a w£ek. Irish farmers declared that Irish butter was available at 135 s a hundredweight and New Zealand at 1265. They added that the British Ministry could but would not buy the dearer Eire butter. A Government official in Eire said: “We have been shipping all possible butter. As a result of the abnormally dry weather we have hardly enough for our own consumption and for putting in cold store for our winter needs.” An official in the British Ministry of Food commented that it was not a question of Irish prices. “We contracted to take all Eire’s exportable surplus,” he said. “This surplus ceased two or three weeks ago and probably none will be available till next April or May. The Germans like to believe that they are preventing Irish agricultural products from reaching England, but U-boats are remarkably scarce in the Irish Sea.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 24 October 1940, Page 3
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180BUTTER FROM EIRE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 24 October 1940, Page 3
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