RETAIL PRICE OF MILK

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21939, 13 November 1936, Page 4

RETAIL PRICE OF MILK

increase AT AUCKLHH 1 FORECAST I | A NEW AWARD FOB DWW . WORKERS AND DRIVERS £ : cram itmmmm sauaauD if. ' ■ailAUCKLAND, November 1% An increase in the retail price of. milk in Auckland Is forecast bltorbl v the filing by tim Arbitration CoWrt of a new award for milk I workers and drivers. Hie operation as the award, in the words of tie j “is conditional on the bnngqf Wgf operation of the new price* ef ajjf which have been provisionally ffr cided upon by the Auckland Mpf M pohtan Milk Council and whkh Mpaj been submitted by, at to the courts Members of the Milk Council Mg day refused to give any indication to what changes in price were 'OH templated; but it was slated that Bi matter had been dpscusset m ooanflH 'tee. Certain rccontraendatiops wiß|W| considered at a meeting _ . y.WB morning, when it is expectea fay; official statement will ba annevr garding the scale of prices, and MHfari; policy. , , - - -Br?. 1 It was stated ■in an iiiiUMail»B|M| quarter that the new award wg*: mean an increase in costs_ ofatMj» SO per cent., and that an hwwRUWi the retail price of milk of jd ■ could be forecast with some ddH| of accuracy. A Mr J. Purtcll. aacre*wy_ ef. Wm Auckland Milk Boundsnwn’s said it had practically bean <WH| to ‘increase thi price by a*d to meet the new condition*. IB cussion of the Auckland SM|H| men’s award in Wellington, wo the employers dwawi. that crease would not meet The Arbitration Court, added, had made roundsmen’s award oneen**| that new prices of milk SiMmid troduced, .jg|lg|