THE LOCAL MARKET
THREATENED ACTION BY DAIRY
FACTORIES
(BX TELEGBAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
PALMERSTON N., 15th Feb.
A representative meeting of dairy factory, . representatives to-day unanimously carried a resolution: "That this meeting, representing dairy factories supplying butter to the market of 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 the local market on 28th February next." Several speakers expressed the opinion that the Government had failed absolutely to do justice to t the factories supplying tho local marlcet. It was insisted^ that equalisation should have been established at the time the Imperial Government bought Nsw Zealand butter, out of which should be paid any profits above the local price arising from the sale of butter in the United Kingdom. It was represented that as repeated representations to Mr. Massey had been. ignored,_ 'the factories must take the matter into their own hands. ..'
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 8
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164THE LOCAL MARKET Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 8
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