THE PRICED BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 221, 6 June 1918, Page 8

THE PRICED BUTTER.

• ~-. BASIS OP. BEGULATION. A.dioonssion as to the p'rieb of butter *-aa raised at the Northern -Dairy Conference by .a motion proposed by Mr. ~F. liTDonald, representative of the Hikurangi Dairy l'actpry,.,to the etfect tliat the price to local consumers be : regulated by the prices obtainable on tho Homo warket. While Ills" company, he said, did not desire to embarrass the Government, it realised that the producers had not had a- fair run' in the matter of price.. They;had been forced into the position of practically guaranteeing an equalisation fund, for ..this year. Under' the circumstances that -was probably the best thing that could bo done, but the circumstances that had forced the farmers to agree to it wore entirely -wrong. .'Mr. H. Wakelin, Whangarei, ■ asKea •why, if tho Government regulated the jjrice of butter, it should not also regulate the price , of barbed :.wire and other requirements of the farmers. i.Mr. Dear, Kaipara, said he considered that "if the Government'was going- to fix prices at all it'should fix tho prices of butter-boxes or of booty".Mr. W. ( Gregg, Kaitaia, said his company considered- that it .was not wise to hold out .for.'the English."price. Mr. Donaldson, Opotiki, said he thought that from the prosperous appearance of Auckland its people could well afford to pay the price ruling in Dngland . . The motion was carried with only one dissentient; , ■■.'.'.