THE PRICE OF BUTTER.
BASIS OF REGULATION.
VIEWS OF THE PRODUCERS. A discission" as to the pTie? of butter was '■ raided at the Northern Dairy Conference i yesterday by a motion proposed by Mr. F. ' McDonald, representative of the Hikurangi : Dairy Factory, to the effect that the price • to local consumers be regulated by the : prices obtainable on the Hume market, j While his company, he Slid. did not desire ! to embarrass the Government, it realised 1 that the producers had not had a fair run I in the matter of prices. They had been 1 forced into the position of practically j guaranteeing an equalisation fund for this I year. I ndor the circumstances that was j probably the best thing that could be done, I but the circumstances that had forced the I farmers to agree to it were entirely wrong. Mr. H. Wakelin, Whangarei. asked why, ! if the Government regu'ated the price of butter, it. should not also regulate the price of barbed wire and other requirements of the farmers. Mr. Dear. I\ 'para, said he considered that if the Government was going to fix prices at all it should fix the prices of butter-boxes or of boots.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 10867, 4 June 1918, Page 4
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201THE PRICE OF BUTTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 10867, 4 June 1918, Page 4
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