DAIRY SALES TO U.S.A. AND CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 115, 18 May 1927, Page 6

DAIRY SALES TO U.S.A. AND CANADA.

It has been alleged that the board's principal London agents were granted a monopoly of all sales to the above countries and allowed three per cent commission. If this is true, then one is entitled to ask in what way it has benefited the dairy farmers to deprive New Zealand merchants of their connection! by Act of Parliament, and hand them over to a London firm? The New Zealand merchants used to do this business for one per cent commission, and at the end of their trading year, if they made profits, pay income tax to the Xew Zealand Government. Under the new scheme it would appear that the dairy companies are mulcted in an additional two per cent commission, and the New Zealand Government loses the income tax. Another matter requiring some explanation in view of the creation of a "finest" grade, the more or less—of the individual factory brand into a national brand, and the assertion thatit was the intention of the board to preserve established connections is: How comes it that practically every box of 4 butter shipped to Canada and America is supposed to have been tho product of a certain dairy company who took a prominent part in forcing compulsion on to other dairy companies? Does it mean that despite the fact that many other dairy companies make "finest" butter, only this favoured company's butter is fit to ship to U.S.A. and Canada? Was this particular dairy company the only one with connections in U.S.A. and Canada prior to compulsory; control? CURIOUS.