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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 256, 10 August 1933, Page 8

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DOMINION WHEY BUTTER. (Special to the " Guardian.") NEW PLYMOUTH, August 8. Criticism of the prevention of the export of whey butter was made by Mr A. Pearce, chairman of directors of the Kakaramea Dairy Company, at the annual meeting. He contended that the prohibition! was dictated by the butter interests at the expense of the cheese companies. The Kakaramea company had been advised by its agents, Mr Pearce said, 'that the marketing of whey butter would not have interfered with that of finest creamery butter. There were shops which took regularly all classes of butter, from finest English at Is 6d to cooking butter at lOd. If whey butter were off the market foreign butters would be used to a decrease in the consumption of finest.

Mr Pearce said the Dairy Board was "lop-sided," having more butter interests than cheese, and he considered the new regulation was a. "day??ght robbery from the cheese producers." They did not ask for the Fernlcaf brand, but only for the right to put whey butter on the market and get whatever value was offering.