BUTTER IN STORE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 September 1926, Page 9

BUTTER IN STORE.

LONDON (MESSAGE DENIED. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) INVERCARGILL, Sept. 27. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Farmers’ Dairy Federation, the president, Mr. John Fisher, a late member of the Dairy 'Control Board, referring to a statement cabled from London last week that a million boxes of New Zealand butter were held in cold storage in Britain, characterised it as an outrageous lie. The total reservation made for the purposes of marketing did not average 10.6 per cent. The imputation was that the Control Board " had something to do with the hold up. Until the first day of this month the board had absolutely nothing; to do with the marketing of pi’oduce. AH it did was to regulate shipping in New Zealand. The cablegram emanated from an interested source, and. he ventured to say that if the cable succeeded in the end it had in view, to weaken the stand of the. producer, and the right people bought one hundred thousand boxes, the price would jump, the million boxes in cold .store would disappear, and a cable would arrive to say that New Zealand butter had been sold out.