BRITISH FARMERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23057, 7 December 1936, Page 6

BRITISH FARMERS

DAIRY PRODUCE IMPORTS RESENTED SEVERE TARIFF SUGGESTED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. British farmers at Home, particularly those engaged in milk production, are not too kindly disposed towards the way in which the dominion farmers are underselling them on the butter market at Home, according to Mrs H. N. Savill, who arrived by the Akaroa from England to-day on a round trip. Mrs Savill runs a farm at Home as a hobby, and has introduced intensive methods of milk production and marketing. She said that anything that helped outside dairy produce into England was resented by the British dairy farmers. British farmers were now getting it into their heads that the only way to recover their position was to have a severe tariff on importations, so that outside butter could be brought up to the price of the Home-produced article. Mrs Savill told a Post reporter that their living was at stake, and, in spite of low wages, they were producing at a loss under the existing conditions.