THE BUTTER OUTPUT.
NEGOTIATIONS! FOR PURCHASE,
STILL INCOMPLETE. WELLINGTON, September 21. Another inquiry was mado in' the House to-day as to tho progress of the negotiations between the New Zealand Government and the Imperial Government for the purchase by the Imperial Government of the New Zealand butter output. Mr W. H. Field asked the Prime Minister whether ho could give the House any later information on this matter.
The Prime Minister said that in the last messages ho had sent to London he had urged the importanco of coming to a quick deoision. for the reason that the New Zealand dairy season had opened, and that tho
delay was causing serious embarrassment. Ho had received no reply to that telegram, which ho had sent six days ago. He' thought tho delay was owing to the cliango mado in tho office of the Food Controller. He expected to have the reply in the course of a few days. ■'Mr Wilkinson: Any news about cheese? Mr Massey: Not a word. I have not had a word from the Imperial authorities on this subject for three weeks.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 10
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