The Butter Business.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 80, 4 December 1913, Page 5

The Butter Business.

NO EVIDENCE OF A R3NG. ENQUIRIES IN LONDON.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] [Received 8.0 a.m.) .London, ‘December 3.

The Agents-General are making exhaustive ■mupimrii into every ‘branch of the butter-handling businessthrough the Port of London authority the railways and Tooley Street. Tin president of the Wholesale Grocers’ Association states that widely divergent views are expressed and the dir ferent suggestions are bewildering tc the committee, though it obtained i mass of information beneficial to but tor exporters. The committee, expects to be finished in a fortnight. It did not elicit direct evidence of any ring controlling the prices, which a remounting up.

A STEADY MARKET.

Wellington, December 2

The Wellington office of the Bristol and Dominions’ Producers’ Associntio: was advised hy cables from Bristol today that the first shipment of hut ter sent by the Ruapehu via ’London realised 127 s 9d hundredweight. The cable further advises'* that tin market for meat is. steady, and fo butter and cheese-firm. ,i;