LOCAL BUTTER MARKET
• FACTORIES DECIDE- TO WITH- . > DRAW SUPPLIES.' ■ By Telegraph—Press - Association. ! Pahnerston N.V February 15. '. A well-attended meeting of dairy factory representatives.; unanimously resolved: "That this meeting,_ representing dairy factories supplying the butter markoti of >the Wellington Province decides (since all efforts have failed to establish an equalisation fund to bring factories supplying the local market to the same level as exporting factories) that our factories withdraw from tjjo local market on February 28 next." Speakers expressed •,the opinion that the Government had failed absolutely to do justice to the factories supplying the local market. It was insisted that equalisation should have been established at the time the Imperial Government bought New Zealand butter, out of which should be paid any profits above the local .price- arisincj from .the .sale of butter in-the United Kingdom. It'was represented that as repeated representations to. Mr. Masse.v had been ignored, the factories must take tha matter in . their own' hands..
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 16 February 1918, Page 6
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158LOCAL BUTTER MARKET Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 16 February 1918, Page 6
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