MILLING OF FLOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 7

MILLING OF FLOUR.

DOMINION ORGANISATION. ALLEGED DISSATISFACTION. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Sunday. Reports are current that the decision of several mill-owners is to break away when tho agreement between the millers for the continuance of their organisation, Distributors, Ltd., comes up for ratification. Little credence is given to the reports in Otago. The present agreement for ojjerating the organisation, which lias been in force for some years, expires in September, and the millers are already being asked their opinions on the advisability of continuing with Distributors, Ltd. Otago mill-owners are confident that the agency will be given a further lease of life. ' Outside the mills in tho Auckland district there are only about six mills iu the Dominion which have not joined up with Distributors, Ltd., and an effort is being made this year to bring them into a big company. If some of the mills now bound by the agreement refuse to ratify the existing arrangements, it is quite possible that considerable difficulty will be experienced in Distributors, Ltd., operating after September. "There are difficulties in the way," said a Dunedin miller. "Some impossible demands are being made by some millers who are at present a little dissatisfied. The demands are that these particular mills should be given increased quotas in supplies. This will not be done, because minute redistribution of quantities is made, and there will be trouble if, another man gets more. I will want more, and everybody else will join iri the demands. Tho trouble would not end, and it would mean tho end of Distributors, Ltd."