THE BUTTER MARKET.
WJiiijJjl.NVii'U-X-, JJecember o. Inquiries show that" there is no: prospect of the local price of'mitter (top brands) dropping below Is OJd 'per Ib wholesale or Is 2d per Ib retail, 'this.' sf.4e of Christmas. The butter buyers.. for Home have taken all they could eat up to March next at from ll^d to ll^dT- The lov? prices on the London market ,' therefore, do not affect the companies, which" have made their contract*, and so secured themselves, ' as the great majority' of them have done. In view of tins fact suppliers of the local market cannot see their way clear to come below ll|d per Ib. Theie io a eon- ' siderable amount of inferior dairy butter to be had at a lesser rate, but the Xew Zealand palate is moie fastidious than that of the English butter eateis.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 21
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140THE BUTTER MARKET. Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 21
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