THE PRICE OF BUTTER.
STATEMENT BY PREMIER
By Telegraph—Special Correspondent. WE LING TON, Aug. IS. “I am not satisfied,” said Mr Massey in a further statement regarding the price of butter this evening, “that tliero is enough butter m New Zealand to justify us in allowing export, but I think that by tho end. of the month wo shall bo able to lift the prohibition altogether.” Will you wait until some .definite price is reached before export is allowed ? Mr Massey was asked.
Mr Massey: I don’t think that will he necessaryr— The. thing will regulate itself. Mv own opinion is that butter will not ho as cheap during the coming season as it has been. In England tho price of butter is -very much higher than it has been, of late years, but, on the other hand, the price of cheese, very high until recently, lias fallen. When the season opens here, the price in New Zealand will be regulated bv the price in England. In reply to another question, Mr Massey said the high price of butter in New Zealand now was owing, to local scarcity and not to high, prices elsewhere. Ho believed that present prices must como down.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4012, 19 August 1915, Page 6
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202THE PRICE OF BUTTER. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4012, 19 August 1915, Page 6
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