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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1018, 10 November 1917, Page 8

Most Now Zealanders (says the Press') [will be a little startled on a first reading 'of the statements attributed to Sir T. Mackenzie in liis speech at the Cold Storage Association s luncheon. It seemed strange —so Sir Thomas is reported to have said-that h.valty should lit iiiish ;i handimp, while blatant aisloyalty commanded a premium, lie immediately went on to contrast the seventeen pence paid to New Zealand butter producers with the price, nearly double, that is paid for Irish Inn tor. "lllatant disloyalty” is a phrase ot some strength, hut while i' : m:l .' tie urged that it was not discreet ol tho High Commissioner to use it in tins context, nobody ran seriously clem that tin* feeling in Ireland, v.here the Sinn h\dn spirit is predominant, eoulcl not with accuracy he called But the eomnarisou made by Sir Thomas Mackenzie is, worth pondering lor its double significance. hirst, it shows very clearly that our butter producers are receiving enormously less than the real value of their produce. Second, it shows that the Irish producers arc doing very well indeed out ot the war. The "war," as a matter of fact, is a source ol great prosperity to Ireland.

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