LONDON PRICES
AND NEW ZEALAND CHARGES. BUTTER AND CHEESE. “There should soon be a redaction nl the retail price of butter,’ ’ said Mr Justice -Fraser during the hearing of the dairy workers’ dispute by the Arbitration Court at Auckland. His Honour had referred to the most retoent movement on the London market, and said he had noticed that our Tetail price did not go down in sympathy with the Home market as rapidly as it went up. Later in the hearing the employ-ws were trying to show why it was necessary to provide for a 60 aid 65 hour week in the butter and cheese factories, when Hi*. Honour said: “Surely you are not going to tell ns that the bottom has dropped out the butter business.” Counsel for the employers denied any such intention, but said that the majority of the suppliers were farmers, and the bottom had fallen out of farming. “Yes, through land speculation,”■ was the jndge’s rejoinder. An official of one of the, large concerns said that a fair season was expected. but that conditions were not too rosy for the farmers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11497, 18 April 1923, Page 4
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