the Editor of the form-CHiwA Dany News"
.Sm,—I would invite special and attention of all readers to the "Notice" signed by Messrs.
Products Ltd., which appears the front page of your issue of it is to be presumed, is set h the real reason why hard-housewives in Shanghai are levied with an extra 35 cents pound for tons of tons of butter, and paid for at old rates and in cold storage in Shanghai idy/for the normal consumption of city during the next three or ur months. reason given is in brief, that dt extra 35 cents were not levied the entire stocks would be sold out in just two days time! Before or-mary citizens can wholeheartedly except this rather startling information, it is certainly essential that M Edible Products Lid, or other well-informed wholesalers, support this statement with some inication of who the purchasers would "be and what they are supposed to do with 100 or so tons of butter—will they store it and where, or would a Widespread orgy of butter guzzling place, so as to ensure consump-on before it starts to smell?
Incidentally, the assumption that bange is liable to harden at 74d. at least optimistic as things are ly, but as a reason for a levy of cents per pound on butter, this be accepted only by the most [gullible of Shanghai residents. have, however, to thank 5 Edible Products Ltd. for inattention to the butter levy ndrit would appear to offer a particularly /revealing instance of what can pass in Shanghai under the term -"good business" provided, of that the "smell" can be pre-from rising.
Even if the odour does become oppressive, is it not possible for the butter with some admixtures to be red into say 1,000 tons of mar-me to be disposed of at propor-Vonatel still higher rates?
Rommr L. STEWART. Shanghai, June 16.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.