NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

HIGHER PRICES IN AMERICA LONDON NEWSPAPER INDIGNANT BLAMES CONTROL BOARD Bt Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January' 25. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. The “Westminster Gazette,” in a leader, says: “Before it can approve of the expenditure of a million a year to advertise Empire goods, the Government should explain why it has 'not protested against the New Zealand ' Dairy Board’s reducing butter slrpments between now and Angust to the extent of 10,000 tons, compared with 1925, for the purpose of supplying the United States, which offered higher prices. “This is merely a foretaste of what the board is likely to do when it controls produce valued at £20,000,000 a year. Australia is organising a similar control of foodstuff, and wools proving the short-sightedness of the “Buy British Goods” campaign, and the fundamental fallacy of the Government’s Imperialistic protection policy.” OUT OP THE BOARD’S POWER. “Utterly absurd,” exclaimed Mr T. C. Brash, secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Control Board, when the foregoing message was read to him. The board, he declared, had nothing whatever to do with the market in which the producers chose to sell. If they were offered a higher price in America their butter would go there, and the board pould do northing to stop it. As a matter of fact, more butter had been sent to America in other years—before the hoard came into existence—than was being sent this year. What the hoard was trying to do was to regulate shipments to the Home market, and that benefited consumers as well as producers.