SALE OP FERTILISERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 10

SALE OP FERTILISERS

ACTION OF DAIRY COMPANIES

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post")

AUCKLAND, This Day. The question of the preferential treatment of dairy companies in the supply of fertilisers was discussed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Farmers' Fertiliser Company yesterday. The speakers raised strong objection to the practice of dairy companies in passing on fertilisers to their suppliers at wholesale rates. The opinion was expressed that retail prices should be charged and the profit added to the company's funds for distribution at the end of each year.Mr. J. 11. .Furness asked why negotiations had not been continued with the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company to supply fertilisers at wholesale rates. He understood that the dairy company wanted to purchase fertilisers, at current market rates aed pass the advantage on to its suppliers. The chairman, Mr. A. A. Eoss, said that it was not considered good policy to give dairy companies very much latitude. If the dairy companies retailed tho product at reduced rates to their suppliers the effect would be a general reduction in tho price. This the company could not afford.

Mr. J. Wilson, the general manager, said the dairy companies had abused the privileges givien to them in the past. They had passed on manures to suppliers at cut rates. These immediately became the ruling prices. It seemed that the prices would have to be run on a sliding scale and that dairy companies would have to abide by the fixed prices of manufacturer.