CREAM AND BUTTER-FAT
COMPARISON OF VALUES "People who talk about exorbitant margins of profit in the milk business should attempt to issue a prospectus to form a company to enter the trade," said -Mr. G. W. Hutchison, chairman of th© Auckland Metropolis tan Milk Council, at a meeting of the council yesterday. "They would soon learn how little there is in the milk trade." A letter was received from the Chamber of Commerce, stating it had worked out figures showing that a comparison of prices of butter-fat as supplied as cream in cartons and as supplied to dairy factories gave an eight to one ratio in favour of the former. In reply, the secretary of the Milk Council, Mr. N. R. Chapman, gave a detailed analysis of the position, showing the ratio to he only three to one in favour of crcatn.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22202, 31 August 1935, Page 9
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