BUTTER PRICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1932, Page 6

BUTTER PRICES.

Suggestions such as those of Mr. J.. & Nicol, of Tβ Aroha, would be amusing to me if I did not view the serious state of our produce on the British market as I do. The present chaotic condition is, to my way of thinking, largely of our own making. Mr. Nicol's \iews,~likc those who have the marketing of our dairy farmers' produce, are narrow and selfish. New Zealand had a wonderful opportunity at the Ottawa Conference, one she may never get again. Had the representatives we sent" there offered Britain a free market for the goods she manufactures in return for what we expect and almost demand from her, results might have been different; instead they came homo boasting of how little they had given. On what grounds does Mr. Nic'ol think wo arc justified in asking Great Britain to fix the price, say, if Danish butter so as New Zealand could "get 1/'S per lh f° r hers? Does he think tin: British Government and public are fools, or does lie think the handsome offers New Zealand made ut Ottawa sufficient? W. L. PIRIt-