BUTTER AND CHEESE

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1917, Page 3

BUTTER AND CHEESE

:\i()!!!•: '}V. FSTfOXS. AME.IvICA WAXTS SCi’PFIFS. [By Electric Telegraph—Siiccin! to "Star.”] WELIiIXOTOX, This, Ihiy. ‘•lfavo you his 1 any word tiboiit r ; .shod Mi‘. Anderson of H".* Premier yesterday. The reply was a negative, Mr. Mrssev adding that he had cabled to ( ] IL . lliuh ('omniis. inner, ankhajc him jo nrue the hniicrial authorities b" o've an answer al the earliest possible moment. In regard to cheese, the position was much simpler than in regard to ; •, though the cheese producers could p.t'oceed on the assumption that a lame portion of the output would be taken and 90 per emit mi the basis of lust Year's prices bo advanced. Mr. AVilford asked .if the Premier was aware that butler wasi being sold :o -jv; 0(1 per lb in America, lie understood that a deput at ion of American buyers wished to interview the Premier with ;i request that, they be allowed to e\]ior( butter to the States. Mr. Massey tcpiied that he knew nmlii'.ig of the proposal, hut at the ret|nest of the Imperial (lovernnient. nr, foodstuflb could he exported, excejit to Britain, without tfieir sanction. If Imtter was exported to America (lie Minister of Customs

would have given a permit, which toiuld not be granted witlimit emsm!-

MF.BCIfAXTS PFFFXT IMPITATIOXS.

A statement made by the Premier the House on Monday night, that the merchants were profiting by every scare over the shortage of shipping to oof butte' - cheap, was denied by exporters' who interviewed the Premier. ft was pointed out, that under the arrangement with Hie Covei'iiment in ■'l'oart .exporters pledged themselves to make no purchase of new season’s 1 ot|(... pending a linal decision of the f'.rv -."niu'.'iii. Th's pledge had keen fa’thfnllv ea v ried out.