AUSTRALIAN BUTTER
GOVT. CONTROL PROPOSAL.
fBY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.]
SYDNEY, August 6
Discussing the future marketing of butter arising out of the Privy Council’s decision in the dried fruits case, a leading producer and exporter, Mr. R. C. Gibson, at Lismore, said it was doubtful whether, if a referendum were taken, the people would be prepared to give the Federal Government powers which the Privy Council held the Government did not at present possess. It was likely, however, that an effort would be made at the next Premiers Conference to delegate the control cf the butter industry to the Con,monwealth. A unanimous decision was recessary, and he doubted whether the States, as a whole, would agree.
Mr. Gibson pointed' out that the New Zealand scheme would not give local dairymen returns greater than were at present being received by dairy farmers in Australia. The value of the New Zealand scheme rested not so much on the higher prices as on the fact (hat dairymen knew in- advance what they would get for their product. They had become in effect servants of the Government.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1936, Page 7
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