THE PRICE OF BUTTER.
' ! NO IMMEDIATE IOTAL REDUCTION. '• S A Press Association message from Dunodin yesterdav announced a reduction in price <u huiter in that ! ' city from Is Sd to K od per lb. In- - : onirics made lo<aly. regarding the i i pn».-.pt>ct i>t' it ovr'.v>.pondhig reduction ! !!• (iirisichnrcli elici'od tli.it there is tin immediate possibility of a reduction. ( '[ he lnc.'il price o; iir c -t gi.'idc butter is . Is ij'J per lb, so thai, Dunediu has merely come into line with Christ- : uliurch. Some of the Christchureh , ' jjrocei-y firms are s'dl'ug first grade t butter at U od per ih. and stoond ■iU&o ftu 4-i. i>uring winter most .lu-i.-J u«*pply buiwjr «t twp ' ! prices, and as summer and * store supplies run low the differeucp in : quality frequently becomes negligible. At the hymning of summer butter manufacturers, as a rule, drop the > supply of two grades of butter, and sell : only the first. £rade butter at the winter prico for second grade butter. Thir; seasonal reduction 'is the only <i/ie in ' pro-pect i'-t tic yresent t.i-'nu-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19150902.2.37
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 5
Word Count
175THE PRICE OF BUTTER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 5
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in