MILK PRICES
STABILISATION SCHEME.
[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHRISTCHURCH, April IS.
The milk retailers of Christchurch decided, at a meeting to-day, to support a scheme for the stabilisation of milk prices, similar to that in operation in Auckland, under the terms of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Act, 1933. Under this Act, the prices paid by the retailers to the vendors, and the prices to be charged by the vendors to the consumers, are fixed by an authority representative of local bodies, including the City Council, the retailers, and the producers. Representatives of the retailers were appointed to a Joint Committee, with those of the producers, to prepare the terms of the proposal, for a Bill to be placed before Parliament when the session opens in June. It was stated at the meeting that the main object was to come to an agreement by which the producers and the retailers could secure a fair price for their produce and service. There had been serious price-cutting, chiefly by shops, which sometimes sold at cost price, in order to induce customers, in the hope that trade would be extended to other stock.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1934, Page 6
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