MILK MARKETING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 219, 16 September 1935, Page 7

MILK MARKETING.

British Board Uses Statutory

Powers

FIXATION OF PRICES,

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, September 15.

Milk prices and the conditions of sale for the next 12 months are announced by the Milk Marketing Board. The statement has been awaited anxiously by the milk producers, and has special interest in view of the fact that the board and the central committee representing the milk distributors failed to reach an agreement on prices, and for the first time the board used the powers vested in it by the milk marketing scheme to prescribe the terms.

The- new contract provides for an increase of a shade under id a gallon to be paid by the distributors to the producer, while there is to be no increase in the schedule of the consumer prices. Prices of manufacturing milk have been altered only in respect of cheese and butter, where there is to be a slight reduction in favour of the buyer. The distributors will meet on Monday to consider the terms of the contract, and it is within their rights to report to the Minister of Agriculture that they are opposed to the terms prescribed by the board.