English Butter Market

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 291, 9 December 1936, Page 12

English Butter Market

DOMINION UNDER-SELLING WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. British farmers, particularly those engaged in milk production, were not too kindly disposed toward the way in which the Dominion farmers were under-selling them on the butter market at Home, according to Airs H. N. Savill, who arrived by the Akaroa from England recently on a round trip. Airs Bavill has a farm at Home as a hobby, and has made an intensive study ot milk production and marketing methods. Anything that helped outside dairy produce into England was resented by British dairy farmers, Airs Savill said. British farmers were now getting the idea that tho only way to recover their position was to have a severe tariff on importations, so that outside butter might be brought up to the price of tho Home-produced article. Their living was at stake, and in spite of low w r ages they were producing at a loss under existing conditions.