PRICE OF BUTTERFAT
REQUEST FOR INCREASE (PA.) DUNEDIN, this day. Strong dissatisfaction with the economic position of the dairying industry was expressed at the annual conference of the Otago Provincial Council of the Farmers' Union, and it was decided to ask the Government to take immediate steps to increase the price of butterfat in order to place the dairy farmer oil the same economic basis as members of other sections of the community. The following remits were approved:—That the dairy industry representatives, and particularly the Dairy Board, be elected by postal vote of dairymen on the basis of one vote for every supplier to a butter or cheese factory; that the Government be asked immediately to increase the price of butterfat (in the opinion of the conference the present price is 3d per lb below a price which will hold the industry together and bring about the increase in production so urgently required by Britain); that there be a change of the chairman of the Dairy Board, the present chairman being a non-elective member, as in the * opinion of this conference the board is not sufficiently energetic in pressing for action in the interests of the dairying industry.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1944, Page 6
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