FLOURMILLERS' ASSOCIATION. THE SPLIT IN THE CAMP.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 132, 4 June 1904, Page 2

FLOURMILLERS' ASSOCIATION. THE SPLIT IN THE CAMP.

(11l TKLKDRAFII — rilKsS \«S')OIATION. I DUMIDI.V, 3rd June. The*, 1 Otngo Daily Times states thnt nothing definite is "setthd ngnrding the Flourmiller*" Anfoeiation. At present tho cutting of prices is confined to Dunedin. What complicate* 6)i« »ihi*tion i* the resentment felt by some Dunedin militrs at Canterbury firms coming down nnd quoting t'.mir at under cost, while negotiations fer settlement «era supposed lo be in pr»|ress. As far ns the situation can b- Mised, the pronpecti of n settlement te exceedingly remote, and thd matter may be fought out to the bitter end. In tbe event (if the present ruinous competition continuing, it i« rumour«d that moia than one mill will clo?e down till price* reftch <i pnynble level j nor i» it (• •• expected Ihe present low prices «an b* confined to Dunedin, for if Canterbury firm* invade this market they may expect tke war to be carried into all otW ct»tr«*. CHKIBTCHUKCH, 3rd June. Mr. Jnrotaon, secretary of the Millers' Trust, says the statement I Hat the trust has brtk*n up V* entirely unfounded The trouble is ceuflned te Dunedin only, and ths trait intend* to continue: as beforo, figh'in,, outsiders in Dunedin only. For Infli.enw* and Gold in the Hoad tako Wood*' Gro\l V t .j O r v Ouro, In fid aud li.- cl_W,-