PRICE OF BUTTER.
Those who dictate the price which the New Zealand consumer shall pay \ tor his butter have a case to answer. This is pre-eminently a dairy producing country. Butter and cheese ought to be at least as cheap here as in other parts of the world—cheaper, many people would contend. Yet the anomalous position has been reached that if our grocers were to combine and buy Xew Zealand butter in London they could land it here at a lower price than that which they are now forced to pay for newly made supplies. . . In other parts of the world there are Housewives' Associations, notably in America and in Australia. These have been of real use in combating the profiteering in household necessaries. Profiteering had in the war a temporary base which it had been its tremendous endeavour since to convert into a permanent one. Hence the need of these Housewives Association, which, far from showing signs of having outlived their usefulness, seem to be gathering strength as the years go by. Can it be said that no scope exists for them in New Zealand?—Dunedin Evening Star.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1395, 22 May 1923, Page 4
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188PRICE OF BUTTER. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1395, 22 May 1923, Page 4
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