Local Butter Market

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7460, 10 May 1934, Page 6

Local Butter Market

(To the Editor.) Sir—As a dairy-tanner lam wondering whether we are entitled to get any assistance at all when I sec the bungling which is taking place. During the past week London buyers have been offering 9}d. for finest quality bulk butter and 9d. for first grade. In spite of this, dairy companies in Auckland district arc going to the additional expense of patting their butter and delivering it on the storekeeper’s counter at !)d. for finest grado and Bd. for first grade; and they are now putting a new line on the local market, called “second grade," at 7d. per lb., although there is not a dairy company in the Auckland Province making 5 per cent, of its output second grade at the present time. Yet we dairy-farmers do nothing about it. We allow our companies to carry on like this and then ask the Government to give us a subsidy. Meanwhile I observe that finest grade pat butter is retailing in Melbourne this week at Is G|d per lb. It is an ea.iy matter for the dairy-farmers to ascertain who is responsible for the position on our local market, and the sooner we demand an explanation from our socalled “lenders" the better.—l am, etc., A. 11. PAEISHI Hairini, May 7, 1934.