NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19169, 7 November 1925, Page 13

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

THE DAIRY CONTROL BOARD. I ; CONSUMERS' POINT OF VIEW. [from om OWN cor.FiEfiroxnKXT. J LONDON. Sept. 22. Since Mr. W. C. Motion and Mr. W. A. lorns, representatives of the New Zealand Dairy Control Board, have arrived i in London they have declined to make j any statement for the. benefit of the British ( public. T.his, of course, is only natural, j as their work for a long time will consist, of investigation into the real condij tions on this side. One does not learn | the ramifications of the London markets | in a few months, and the members of the | Dairy Control Board will have to feel their | way very carefully before making any j definite statement as to their plans. In the meantime there is a very obvious i attempt to prejudice the Control Board jin the eyes of the general public. When I the Meat Producers' Board came into ! operation there '-fas an organised publicity j campaign against it, financed by certain : meat firms. On the present occasion it j is not possible to say whether the articles i and paragraphs are inspired or whether j they have been written by people who j have not been in touch with Tooley Street, j' "The housewife," says the Daily Disj patch, in a leading article, " must buy her butter and cheese and the rest as j cheaply as possible. It is no use appeali ing to her patriotism and her Empire J sympathies if, in the old phrase, her | food is to cost her more. For example, I New Zealand butter has advanced consider- | ably in price since the end of last- May ! as the, result, it is alleged, of holding up | supplies-and keeping them off the market j until the price improved. New Zealand provides, we may note, 25 per cent, of the butter Ave consume. According to the writer of our London despatch a similar holding back is to be effected in the ease of Canadian wheat and Australian wool. " If we are going to give all this help to the Dominions, taxing ourselves to the j tune of a million a year for the purpose, we have a right to bo protected from such trade manoeuvres, the de.iberate object of which is to raise the price of our supplies. All we ask is fair play. Nothing will more discourage, the Britishbuying movement, than any suspicion that J rings and corners of this sort are in active operation."