BUTTER MARKET

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 8, 22 October 1935, Page 7

BUTTER MARKET

LOCAL REGULATION SCHEME. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, October 21. A committee of the New Zealand Dairy Board and the Executive Commission of Agriculture will meet on November 5 to discuss with distributors the problem of prices for butter. At the Dominion Dairy Conference, held under the auspices of the Dairy Board during September, the industry, by 59 votes to 1, gave approval to a scheme under which the board would control all sales of butter on the local market. Under this scheme distributors would work solely as agents of the board. Since the conference a suggestion lias been made that the board should not go so far as it originally proposed, but should content itself with fixing the price of butter at the factory door, leaving the distributors to handle it subsequently as they do at present, lhe board has all along, felt that it was useless to have any scheme which would not be effective, but in deference to suggestions that the existing channels of distribution should be interfered with as little as possible, gave full consideration to the whole question at its last meeting. The members of the executive Commission ot Agriculture were present at the meeting, and the possibilities of various schemes were fully explored. It was decided that a committee ot the hoard and members of the Executive Commission would be prepared to meet a committee of distributors to see whether this proposal would be more acceptable to them than 'the scheme originally envisaged by the board. The meeting with the distributors was fixed for November 5, and it will then be open to the distributors to make any suggestions regarding the proposed schemes.