BRITISH MILK PRICES.
FIXED BY MARKETING BOARD. (British Official AVireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 13. Milk prices and conditions of sale for the next twelve months were announced to-day by the Milk Marketing Board. The statement lias been awaited anxiously by milk producers and has special interest in view of the tact that the board and the central committee representing milk distributors had failed to reach an agreement on prices and, for the first time, the board has used the powers vested in it by the milk marketing scheme to prescribe terms. .. , The new contract provides lor an increase of a shade under Id per gallon to be paid by distributors to the producer, while there is to be no increase in tlie schedule of prices to the consumer. Prices of manufacuring milkin'* have been altered only in respect of cheese and butter, where there is to be a slight reduction in favour of the buyer. Distributors will meet on Monday to consider the terms of tire contract and it is within their rights to report to the Minister of Agriculture that they are opposed to the terms pie scribed by the board.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 247, 16 September 1935, Page 7
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191BRITISH MILK PRICES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 247, 16 September 1935, Page 7
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