RETAIL PRICES OF BUTTER AND CHEESE

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1946, Page 4

RETAIL PRICES OF BUTTER AND CHEESE

j (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 5. I In an urgent question asked in the ! House of Representatives to-day by Mr. E. B. Corbett (Opposition, Egmont) of the Minister of Industries • and Commerce (Mr. Sullivan) information was sought on the decision of the commission of inquiry to consider whether the costs, above the price realised, incurred in holding the retail price of butter and cheese in New Zealand could, under the provisions of the stabilisation agreement, be debited to the dairy industry stabilisation account. The question also asked if the decision had been received by the Government, and if so,.when a, public statement would be made. i Mr. Sullivan, replying, said the

report of the commission was re- ; ceived by the Government last week, [the time for reporting being extend- ' ed at the commission’s request from March 31 to July 31. “The report is at present receiving the consideration of the Government, and will be laid on the table of the House shortly,” added Mr. Sullivan.

Thefts from Camp. Thefts of material from the radar station camp at Oakura were admitted in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth, yesterday. Describing the mattei’ as serious, Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., entered convictions against Ronald Edward Haskell, of Oakura, a farmer, and Ronald William Paul, of New Plymouth a carpenter, and remanded them for sentence. Senior-Sergeant W. J. K. Brown said the camp was closed at the end of the war, and handed over to the War Assets Realisation Hoard. Various items and buildings were sold to Government departments, but during the demolition a number of articles were missed. Paul, admitted the theft of wallboard, joinery, doors, a window sash, and a fanlight, and Haskell admitted the theft of a door.