LOCAL BUTTER PRICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20724, 18 November 1930, Page 12

LOCAL BUTTER PRICES.

Sir, —I have read the correspondence lately published in your paper re local butter prices, most of which is in favour of keeping the prico at about Is 6d per lb. This is absolutely contrary to common sense. Ono of the strongest protests sent to the present Government by the New Zealand Farmers' Union is against the high rate of wages paid to public servants and nil branches of labour, and pointing out the necessity for drastic reductions in wages and superannuations. No farmer can honestly ask the Government to reduce wages throughout our public service and labour unions and in the same breath say our butter must not bo sold locally for under Is 6d per lb. I am a struggling dairy farmer, but I am willing to take 9d per lb, for my butterfat if wages were put on tho 1913 level and mortgages were adjusted to suit the price of butter-fat. One point I fail to see is why do tho retail grocers still get their 2d per lb. for handling our butter when we. only get half what wo did a couple of years ago. Would not Id he sufficient, and that would mean Id more for the struggling cow cookie. Shorthorn.