SALE OF N.Z. BUTTER.

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1918, Page 6

SALE OF N.Z. BUTTER.

DISTIUUI.TION OF I'KOFIT. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 17. The Hon. 1). 11. Guthrie is to meet the Dominion Butter Committee on Tuesday to discuss the distribution of profits from the sale of New Zealand butter in London, which has. boon requisitioned by the Imperial authorities. It is admitted that there must be profits from the sale of this butter, but the problem of how to distribute the profits., if they are to be distributed in this country at all, is not quite an easy one. The butter men say, quite, fairly, that they think it would bo unjust to coniine the distribution to the shippers of the butter. lowing out of account, the people supplying the local market at the fixed price of Is .ad per lb wholesale. They also argue that it should bfc possible so to enlarge the scheme as to equalise in some way the returns from butter with those, of cheese and other milk products, such as glaxo and condensed milk. This is getting perilously near the equalisation scheme which was evolved by the Board of Trade and adopted by the Government a. year ago. The butter men would not use such a term as “equalisation scheme,” seeing tha.c they put up such a fight against the last cni', and it is just as certain that the Government, will not deal with the business by such a method an a. levy on butter-fat. It is understood that if there is to be any equalisation, it will he done by a. collection of some kind on the exported produce.