PRICE OF BUTTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18013, 13 August 1920, Page 5

PRICE OF BUTTER

GROCERS PETITION PARLIAMENT.

commodity handled at a loss.

(Fbou Oob Ovnt Cobbkspondejit.) tj , WELLINGTON, Anmisf- i? Parliament to-day received i * grocers and other 1= Sfta 3? Jfift g w -« s worse, as 10s a week bonus has to be to employees, which brings the ™ t expenses up to 17 ner emit Vu„ point out (I)—that one-third of the bua'ness must be carried on at a loss, thus T] W lrsolvOTiov; (2) that they have the alternate of-csasmg to handle butter; or ©Sat they must commit a breach of the War Keguktions as regards profiteering by loadinffit tL - 0n 40 ? T ther commodities to, £ tL™ N 0 i b unacceptable to them, No. 2 is undesirable, either from the point of view of the retailers or t!m consumers • while No. 3 renders the matter'of committing a breach of the regulations .in some form essential. It is seriously contemplated that such breach shall be m the tfS ignoring any Order-in-Council not permii of 3d difference between the factory pnce and the retail price Even this, they say, will not cover S' against expenses, especially when the £ Capi^'l is taken hi to' consideration. Tho petition has been re-'" ferred to the A. and P. Stock and' Com*-' merce Committee.