PRICE OF BUTTER
EFFECT OF RESTRICTION. •CANBERRA, Wcdncsday. The butter levy, consequent on the six per cent restriction, has been restored ;to a halfpenny. It is contended that the value of Australian butter will be enhanced £3,600,0 ! 00. Mr S. M. Bruce, Resident Minister in London, advised the Federal Cabinet that the restriction plan should force the wholesale price of butter in England to 100 s per cw,t. CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Commenting on the butter situation, Mr C. P. Agar, 'of the Tai Tapu Company, said that the absence of any definite indication of the New Zealand Government's’intentions is causing a. good deal of perturbation, and has had the effect recently of dislocating business to a considerable extent. “In Australia and England the Governments take the people into their confidence,” he said, ‘'but in this country we who are responsible for the administration of whatever policy is adopted, do not know what is being done. Wq are simply left in the position that the Government holds its conversations behind closed doors with the Control Board.” —P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 March 1933, Page 6
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178PRICE OF BUTTER Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 March 1933, Page 6
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