THE PRICE OF BUTTER.
A suggestion for regulating tin price of butter was made in the Cogis lativo Council on Tuesday afternooi by tho Hon. W. Hoeham says ih “X.Z. dimes.” lie said be -'.is a : opinion that eighteenpence a pmnu was an extortionate price to pay in ; (onntry like this. Eating butter at that lignro was like eating gold! Wip, should not the Covernment, when but ter was elicaj), buy it up in qua otitic: and store it until the monopolist: came out of their dens and forced th; I price up? No butter should be more ! i I an one shilling per pound all the j year round, and to ask th 1 walking man to pay any more was going to; 1 far. The Covernment should take
.lops to regulate the p:ico in the I'iii'i)','; ho hod suggested. And what : vary busy time the Govi •rument ...n Id have it' it tiled to iognlato •very thing that everybody wants!'
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 144, 10 August 1911, Page 4
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162THE PRICE OF BUTTER. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 144, 10 August 1911, Page 4
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