DAIRY UNION'S BUTTER OUTPUT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 3

DAIRY UNION'S BUTTER OUTPUT.

AN AMPLE SUPPLY. (BY-TELEGBAMI.—rEESS. ASSOCIATION.) Palmerston North, jfcrch 19/ ■The . head office of the' New Zealand Farmers' Union indignantly; denies''the '■statement fcliat'the Union' had recalled from Home 1700 boxes' of butter to meet' a ! shortage in New Zealand,' and ' further that-the* Union is not making enough butter ~f<sr. local consumption/: and that twenty 'creameries will close down in the course of' the next two weoksi;' Mr. Bendall, the Union, states : that ' there 'is ,no truth' whatever in the statement; ; The' present 'output is still sufficient for, '.requirements:- 1 --' Kecent rains have checked, thedecreasq in;the milk supply. No creameries will be ','dos'gcl down so long as there is sufficient,. jnilk to keep them going. It is' ariticipat'ed ' that - tlie present rains will have the = effect of- keeping the creameries ; going : for irai:lbnger period than anticipated,a .month ago'/; 1 ■ Mr: Benaall also sajwthat the statement by. The -DominjoS ,<tliat' several ' creameries are sending milk to Wellington : afc Bd. . per gallon does not. apply-to the Union creami •: '

In-so far as the statements in' The Dominion are contradicted by Mr. Bondall, we had . every -reason'' to'- believe, .at the time when they were .published,, that they: were correct. -The information ,>vas obtained from a source which;.We:i'regarded as reliable.