SALE OF BUTTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 54, 1 September 1937, Page 9

SALE OF BUTTER

AUCKLAND DISTRICT

REGULATIONS EXPECTED

(By.Telegraph—Press Association.)

1 AUCKLAND, August 31 % Regulations governing the sale awf distribution of butter within the Auckland district are expected to be issued by the Government within a few days. It is understood thsit conditions effecting a system of State control are at present, being drafted-by the Internal Marketing Department, and that they will be brought into operation by means of an Order in Council as soon as this preliminary work is completed. In. authoritative circles, however, it is considered unlikely that the proposals will actually be applied for about 'amonth.

No announcement is expected until the Order in Council is gazetted, but itj is believed that the scheme will follow, the general lines of regulations now; applicable in Wellington. These pro-.{ vide that no butter1 shall be sold by, any person unless a "licence is first; obtained from the Primary Products' Marketing Department, which has^ power to define areas within which ■ .manufacturers or wholesale distri-j butors may sell." The rates of .distribution allowances are gazetted froml time to time.

Within the industry it is felt that regulations will.imply complete State control, the Internal Marketing De-. partment virtually fixing the price at every stage between factory and retailer. It is a step which many com-! petent authorities regard as uimeces-J sary as the export parity price is a' stabilising factor in the dcpwrite > ajiKketand mk<®M elaborates*****