PRICE OF CREAM

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 130, 4 June 1935, Page 6

PRICE OF CREAM

HELPING THE FARMER.

(To the Editor.)

It is encouraging to see by Friday's "Star" that the North Auckland Dairy Conference unanimously supported the proposal to remove the restrictions on the sale of cream, and to further increase the s?.;e by keening the p-ico down. At the beginning of tho last season for strawberries and other fruit.-i I urged tho latter argument and protested against tho decision to prohibit fruiterers from selling cream, maintaining that every facility should be given for a larger sale, and th.it nothing could help the sale better than fixing a piice in some proportion to the price of bnttcrfat, instead of holding it up to a luxury level. The only response was a protest agxinst robbing the poor farmer. As if anyotip in New Zealand would ever want to do th.it! I pointed out that if cream were regarded as a food, instead of a luxury, the increased local sale might appreciably reduce the quantity of butter which is flooding the glutted. London market, and even though a lower price might not bring such pronounced results in the depth, of winter, it may still be suggested that it might have a moral effect in assisting tho negotiations of Messrs. Forbes and Coates in London. • CONSUMER.