PRICE OF BUTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 11

PRICE OF BUTTER.

CONTROL IN NEW ZEALAND. PLAN EMPHATICALLY OPPOSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Emphatic opposition to the Sinclair plan to control tho price of butter on tlio local market was expressed to-day by Mr. C. P. Agar, a newly-elected member of the Dairy Produce Board and managing director of the laitapti Daiiy Company. "Nobody, to my knowledge, would se.l butter below value on the local market or anywhere else," said Mr. Agar, ' and therefore the object of the scheme is to obtain a higher price from the consumers of New Zealand than the commodity is worth. I think neither the public nor the Government will stand for this. The onlv other objective of the scheme could be that North Island producers desire to share the benefits of the South Island local market. I doubt .whether South Island producers would be silly enough to fall in with his suggestion. "I believe it is the duty of representatives of the producers to obtain as high a price as a commodity is worth, but in these times of dire I am opposed to any form of exploitation of any section of the community." Other representatives of tlio dairy industry agreed with Mr. Agar.