FLOUR MILLERS' COMBINE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 4

FLOUR MILLERS' COMBINE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association J DUNEDIN, this day. Reports are current that the decision of several mill-owners is to break away when the agreement between millers for continuance of their organisation, Distributors, Ltd., comes up for ratification. Little credence is given to the reports in Otago. The present agreement for operating of the organisation, which has been in force for some years, expires in September, and millers are already being asked their opinions on the advisability of continuing with Distributors, Ltd. Otago mill owners are confident that the agency will be given a further lease of life. Outside of the mills in the Auckland district there are only about six mills in the Dominion which have not joined up with Distributors, Ltd., and an effort is being made this year to bring them into a big company. If some of the mills now bouhd by the agreement refute to ratify the existing arrangements, it is quite possible that considerable difficulty will be experienced in Distributors, Ltd., operating after September.

"There are difficulties in the way," said a Dunedin miller. "Some impossible demands are being made by some millers who are at present a little dissatisfied. The demands are that these particular mills should be given increased quotas in supplies. This will not be done, because minute redistribution of quantities is made, and there will be trouble if another man gets more. I will want more, and everybody else will join in the demands. The trouble would not end, and it would mean the end of Distributors, Ltd."