PRICE FOR MILK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 273, 17 November 1936, Page 9

PRICE FOR MILK.

RESENTFUL PRODUCERS. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD. At a representative meeting of producers, convened by the Pakuranga Town Milk Producers' Association, and held in the Pakuranga Hall last night, a number of speakers expressed resentment at the action of the Auckland Milk Council in reducing, from lOd to 9|d a gallon, the price to be paid producers. Mr. A. C. Trousdale and Mr. J. S. Montgomerie, the. producers' representatives on the Milk Council, explained how the new prices had been fixed by the council. In expressing their dissatisfaction with the reduction 111 price to the producers, several speakers said that the council had been created to give producers what it cost them to produce, yet the very opposite had been done. The recent reduction, they claimed, had been made at the request of the vending interests, regardless of the rising costs of the producers. It was decided to call a conference of all town milk producing interests, and to recommend that an appeal be lodged against the new fixation of prices.