“THE BUTTER-FAT TAX"
NOT ANY GREAT HARDSHIP STATEMENT BY MINISTER FOR ARGICULTURE. Interviewed yesterday with regard to the resolution passed by a meeting ot dairy company representatives at Carterton on Saturday, protesting against tho continuance of the “butter-fat tax of Id per lb,’’ the Hon. W. D: S. MacDonald (Minister for Agriculture and Commerce) said; “There is no serious loss to tho dairy farmers generally. The prices now are very much in advance of anything they have been previously getting, and it is very questionable, taking average prices in the Home market, whether those who are selling in tho Dominion arc not -doing quite as well, under the present arrangements, as those who are exporting. The summer prices are now practically over, and arrangements have been made for the winter prices. So far there does not seem to he any great hardship inflicted on either the cheese or the butter men, and on comparative values there is very little difference between cheese and butter at present prices, cheese having perhaps id a lb the best of it.’’
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9613, 20 March 1917, Page 6
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