Butter sales
Sir,-Mr Talboys’s criticism of the Labour Government’s concealing of the fact in 1975 that an 18 per cent price increase for butter was at the expense of a 23,000 tonne drop in New Zealand dairy sales to Britain, was justified. Accepting a cut in quota for a price rise was a dangerous precedent when fighting to maintain a large share of the British market. Telling only half the story to dairy farmers was deceptive. Labour’s habit of displaying the best side and concealing the worst has also been a Worrying feature of its alternative tax plans. In contrast, Mr Muldoon’s negotiations with the freezing industry prompted Mr “Blue” Kennedy to acknowledge that the Prime Minister was “as straight as a die.”—Yours, etc., J. F. GARVEY. Westport. August .4, 1978.
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