GOOD NEWS FOR FARMERS
BUTTER ADVANCES INCREASED. WELLINGTON, Dec. 16. At a meeting of the Dairy Export Board cables were read showing that advances had been increased by the merchants to Is 2d for finest butter and 7d for cheese. Satisfaction was expressed and the board decided to cable to London suggesting that the increase apply to all unshipped produce. The Bristol Merchant’s Association cabled taking exception to the fact under, the present system it was impossible for them to make f.o.b. or c.i.f. sales. The board decided to cable to the London agency and the Bristol Merchants’ Association, that in accordance with its original control policy, if this class of sale is advantageous it could be adopted on behalf of all factories, though not for a selected few;, Messrs Motion and Irons, of the London agency, have been, requested to leave London early in. May for New Zealand. Mr Grounds, chairman of the Board, is arriving in Wellington in time for the board’s meeting on January 19. Reports showed that all this season’s butter and cheese up to the lonic shipment, which arrived on December 7, had been sold, comprising 109. 364 boxes of butter and 24,560 crates of cheese. The total advances against this season’s produce are butter £1,349,342, cheese. .£692,110, whey butter £19.429.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 December 1926, Page 3
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