BUTTER IN STORE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19906, 28 September 1926, Page 10

BUTTER IN STORE.

LONDON MESSAGE DOUBTED “AN OUTRAGEOUS LIE.” (Peb United Press Association. ) INVERCARGILL, September 27. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Farmers’ Dairy Federation, the president, Mr John Fislier (formerly a member of the Dairy Control Board), referring to the statement cabled from London last week that 1,000,000 boxes of New Zealand butter were held in cold, storage in Britain, characterised it as an outrageous lie. The total reservations made for the purposes of marketing did not average 10.6 per cent. The imputation was that the Control Board had something to do with the hold‘-up. Until the first day of this month the board had absolutely nothing to do with the marketing of produce; all it did was to regulate shipping in New Zealand. The cablegram had emanated from an interested source, and he ventured to say that if the message succeeded in the end it had in view—to weaken the stand of the producer—and the right people bought 100,000 boxes, prices would jump, the 1,000,000 boxes in cold storage would disappear, and a cablegram would arrive to say, “New Zealand butter sold out.”