BUTTER SHOULD BE HIGHER.

Northern Advocate, 13 April 1911, Page 6

BUTTER SHOULD BE HIGHER.

WEAK AGENTS ALLEGED

, It is reported that Mr A. McFarlane, president of the National Dairy Association, and chairman of the Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company, has received from Messrs Mills and Sparrow, London, a communication in which the firm says that there is no ' doubt that New Zealand butter today should be selling at 6s to 8s per cwt. at least more than it commands, and it is simply because there are too many weak agents, who are spoiling the trade that better prices are not obtained.

It is pointed out that, one factor in connection with the lower range of price is the fact that the total imports into Great Britain for the last eight weeks, as compared with the same eight weeks last year, show an increase of over 25,000 boxes weekly. This extra quantity had to be marketed, and it has only been possible under existing circumstances to market it on a lower basis of prices. The writer says there is no doubt that the New Zealand dairy produce business can be put on a very much better basis than it is to-day, but the National Dairy Association will have to go in for a strong policy, stick to this policy through thick and thin, and get the co-operation of chairmen of dairy companies in New Zealand.