DISTRIBUTORS, LTD.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 11

DISTRIBUTORS, LTD.

AGREEMENT WITH MILLERS EXPIRING IN SEPTEMBER (By Telegraph.) (Special to "Tho Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Reports are current that several millowners have decided to breaks away when the agreement between the millers for the continuance of their organisation, Distributors.- Ltd., comes up for ratification. Little credendc- is ■' given to'tho reports in;Otago, . Tho present agreement for tho operating of the organisation, which has been in force for some years, expires in September, and tne millers are already being asliod tlieir opinions on the advisability of continuing with Distributors, Ltd. The Otago. mill-owners arc confident that .the agwiev will., be i givrn a further ; ; !<y43e--ofi.jUfei;: ayvo^'o;; Outside of mils-hi; tjjp A-ucklaml-.-tlis-r; trict, there are; ■'■ o;iijy-. -iibo-ut sLy .ihilis I in the Dominion which have not joined u]i with' Distributors, Ltd., and an effort is being made this year to bring them into the big company. If some of the mills now bound by the agreement refuse to ratify ;the existing arrangements it is. cmite^.. po.ssjbl.e. that considerable difficulty" will Tie experienced in Distributors,; Ltd.;i operating after September. ' '" ;' ' ■'■ ' ' "There are difflcultie^jn the way," said a Dunedin miller. :"Sonu? impossible demands are being made by some millers who are at preseiit a little dissatisfied. The demands.are tha.t these particular mills should be given increased quotas in supplies. This will not be clone because if .a. minute redistribution, of quantities.' isMna.de. there, will be trouble:' If- anotheriman getsmore .1 vrilh want-; more," and everybody1 else will join in- the ■;demands. ■ Tho. trouble would not end, and it would' mean the end of Distributors, Ltd."