Sales of Buffer on Local Market

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 250, 23 October 1935, Page 2

Sales of Buffer on Local Market

DAIRY BOARD TO CONFER WITH DISTRIBUTORS

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 21. The committee of the New Zealand Dairy Board and Executive Commission of Agriculture will meet on November 5 to discuss with distributors the problem of prices for butter. At the Dominion dairy conference held under the auspices of the dairy board during September the industry by 59 votes to one gave approval to the scheme under which the board would control all sales of butter on the local market. Under this scheme the distributors would work solely as agents of tho board. Since the conference a suggestion has been made that the board should not go as far as it originally proposed but should content itself with fixiug tno price of butter at the factory door, leaving distributors to handle it subsequently as they do at present. The board has all along felt that it was useless to have auy scheme which would not be effective, but iu deference to suggestions that the existing channels of distribution should be interfered with as little as possible gave full consideration to tho wholo question at its last meeting and members of the Executive commission of Agriculture were present at tho meeting and the possibilities of various schemes were fully explored. It was then decided that a committee of the board and members of tho executive Commission would be prepared to meet the committee of distributors to see whetacr this proposal would be moro acceptable to them than the scheme originally envisaged by the board. The meeting with tho distributors was fixed for November 5 and it will then be open to the distributors to make any suggestions regarding tho proposed schemes.