LIVING AT STAKE

Evening Star, Issue 22515, 7 December 1936, Page 1

LIVING AT STAKE

ENGLISH FARMERS WANT BUTTER TARIFF [Pbe United Psess Association.! WELLINGTON, December 5. ' British farmers at Home, particularly those engaged in milk production,, are not too kindly disposed towards the way in which-the Dominion farmers are underselling them on the butter market at Home, according to Mrs Hj N. Savill, who arrived by the Akaroa from England to-day on a round trip. Mrs Savill runs a farm at Home as a hobby, and has introduced intensive methods of milk production and marketing. She said that anything that helped outside dairy produce .into England was resented by the British dairy farmers. British farmers were how; getting it into their heads that the only way to recover their position was to have a severe tariff oh importations,so that outside butter could be brought up to the price of the home-produced Mrs " Savill told a ‘ Post ’ reportee that their living was at stake,' and, in spite of low wages, they were producing at a loss under the existing condi* tions.