“Sorry no butter left!” sign at New Brighton supermarket: Picturing Canterbury

"Sorry no butter left!" sign at New Brighton supermarket. Christchurch Star Archive. In copyright. CCL-StarP-00236A.

Closeup of a sold out of butter sign in the chilled section of a New Brighton supermarket the day after the price of butter rose to 2/10. 11 February 1967.

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