PRICE OF BUTTER
SINCLAIR PLAN OPPOSED
j(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ CHRISTCHURCH, June 23. Emphatic opposition to the Sinclair plan to control the price of butter on the local market waa expressed today by Mr. C. P. Agar, a newly-elected member of the Dairy Control Board, and managing director of the Tai Tapu Dairy Company. , "Nobody to my knowledge would sell butter below the value on tho local market or anywhere else," said Mr. Agar, "and therefore the object of the scheme is to obtain a higher price from the consumers of New Zealand than the commodity is worth. I think neither the public nor the Government will stand for this.' The only other objective' of the scheme could be that the North Island producers desire .to* share the benefits of the South Island, local market. . I doubt whether the, South Island producers would be silly-enough to fall in .vith this suggestions .*■■■••. '/I,believe it.is.the; duty of the representatives of the producers to obtain as* high 'a' •price as the" commodity is worth, but in these times of dire distress I am opposed to any form of exploitation of any section.of the community." [Other representatives; of the dairy industry agreed with Mr. Agar.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 10
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200PRICE OF BUTTER Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 10
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