CO-OPERATIVE SELLING.

Northern Advocate, 23 June 1920, Page 4

CO-OPERATIVE SELLING.

BUTTER AND I'll X USE SURPLUS,

CON WIDEK ATION TO-DAY.

WELLINGTON, June 22

Great interest is being taken all over the Dominion in the co-operative .selling proposal vwdch comes up bofoic Hie I'tiliuor.stou North Daio

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once. The proposal roughly is 10 consign the expoitable surplus of butter and cheese to the Co-operative Wholesale Society of Englund.

As matters now stand the sale of produce to the Imperial Government terminates on July 31 next. All butter and cheese made after that date will be at the free and full disposal of their manufacturers; in short, the export titxdc will return to pre-war methods of distribution. It is generally taken for granted that the Imperial Government will definitely terminate its purchasing of cheese on due date, but there is some uncertainty about butter, and as

to (1) whether its purchase will be renewed, and that at a liighen price than now current, 18.1/ per cwt., and (2) whether, if the purchase is not renewed, its price will be controlled in Great Britain. But assuming that the purchase of both butter and cheese definitely terminates on July 31 next, then ir is proposed that the Co-opeijativc Wholesale Society should take charge of the produce on arrival in Great Britain and distribute it on commission and in the best inlorests of the New Zealand producers.

Feeling runs fairly high in Taranaki on the question of the piwposal for the Co-operative Wholesale Society marketing the produce. "At, the South Island Dairy Association meeting, recently held in Dunodin, Mr. Booth moved, and it was carried unanimously, "That the executive of the South Island Dairy Association be authorised to co-operate with the-National Dairy Association in •negotiating."arrangements -in conjunction with the Co-operative Wholesale Society for the marketing of our produce." The indications are that there will not be such unanimity at the Palmerston North mooting.

Point is given to this view of the matter by the opposi'ion of the scheme shown by the 'Hawera Star and the Taranaki Herald, both stnongly representative of Taranaki dairy opinion, and by the fact that a special day has been arranged for the discussion of the scheme, as usually rhe association disposes of all the business on its order paper on the day of the anual meeting, which is to-morrow.