BUTTER PRICES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14480, 15 December 1917, Page 8

BUTTER PRICES.

LCH^iL ■■*lffi&sm J^C^ RATES; ':f DTFPJCpLTy QPRE-SALB {3XJRPLUS.'. (Special to* the Herald.) WELLlX^te^tliis day. ■ When the New Zealand 'butter output for. the seagop. was 'sol'df-to the.- Imperial ati'tiibrities, .. it. wsts. ..a^)rkng^d , that, /the prbdiacers .-would . ii^ . .any. jf^urplus over the f.Ojb.^^rice obtained for any butter sold to^fife. general .pablio-^i £inglariß: by tiie •ties^ '•J3tia factor is likely^tb cause difficulties pv£r',<tihe' slrp^ly, Bf: bU|te|r A /for the <^ealiEuiH/'mai''Jvet j iri. Mpt. there is $$bejjai£. iM^aKifaction anibn^g the facitorira p'rbfiuclH^jfpr" the -Nejy /Zealand) cqiisumeiv bebause ! 'of : 'cb«tih&6d;:'ihr. activity of -Ihe ; feu^r r sfet' up to -dead, : with v^^S^||diH2fkle'; | V^t&. :: 'mak*e' an e^Uitable iarr^H&nieiit coyeriils the' output ' for tKe tloeal . 'stilly : ; - The -e3tp : orl> prlq^-of ;btftter'is.-^g's& ;^^*--lb;'p'lu(B''sO per cent, additional fetjrtMi Bf'sfhy ifrofits 'fed*, by r&^fcit.lh^opi" Btf-' Wtfhe Impeinal a.-athoritie», w^Hioh;ii is.^aSiticipated, will return about .threep^ilcS- pei; pouri<i t9 fhtbories^ over and- &bb*e i iihe^f.6;b:-!p^ce//-"Qbyio\isly, uii'less there is " sbiii^ aJTarigeriierfct: by whifeh the factbHes /'catieritilj* for- local production ate« 15o v share ni 'this distribution, they may be. pTaeed? ;kt a disadvantage of 3U- per- lb" coirifpared; witli those which fex-poiifc th6iri output. 1 -^ 'The Prime Mii^ieter has errbfer^&d, tlie priri^plfe of ari,; equ^'lis&tib^it s^nitm^ tlibugh the vlevy systemi' t>f ' . last, year is hot favored ;by hnn, but, so 'fai 1 " rielthe^ M* Massey'rior th« : Butiter lias made a.' move towards ge^Qrihg' : alt .ai*Angemeni'|; . cwveritig this ihtereßte 6f thoaiß factories which supply Nfcrfr ZealanQ-- wifcli butftek Their •pOßiti'tftv.-'p'f' iincertalnßtjf ■,mdy> ? Idnd: the ' Dofriiniofir into a, difficxiltj-* "with:, its supp|ldes, aHd there! iff aJsyi.l'-uriderstaind, a. risk M- the '16cal/:priQel:J)eirig.;ran^.eid, ; or supplies beftig.'. withheld: .so :. as to bring the positibrl'-td » head. ,-Qheese f^ctoKies, which niay v be at W<>rk alongside! the : b4t?ter fA<storieSy are m'or^r hja^ppi.ly 1 situ-atedy.-'.as'.rtheyKf&b.:•tln»j';feanrre ;pi^ce> for <rhecise;sold t here r -9<9 i f tha^e-xported. 1 ■;