BUTTER PRICE CONTROL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13087, 22 October 1935, Page 5

BUTTER PRICE CONTROL.

SECOND EDITION

MODIFIED SCHEME. CONSIDERING THE BUTORA committee of the New Zealand Dairy Board and the Executive Coinmission of Agriculture w ill meet on November 5 to discuss with distributors the problem of prices for butter. At the Dominion dairy conference, held under the auspices of the Dairy Board during September, the industry*, by 59 votes to one. gave approval to a scheme under which the board would control all sales of butter on. the local market. Under this scheme distributors would work solely as the agents of the board. Since the conference the suggestion has been made that the board should not go as far as it originally proposed. but should content itself with fixing the price of butter at the factory door, leaving distributors to handle it subsequently, as they do at present. The board has all along felt that it was useless to have any scheme which would not be effective, but in deference to the suggestions that existing channels of distribution, should be interfered, with as little as possible, gave full* consideration to the whole question at its last meeting.

The members of the Executive Commission of Agriculture wore present at the meeting and the possibilities of various schemes were fully explored. It was. then decided that a, committee of the board and the members of the executive commission would be prepared to meet a committee of distributors to see whether this proposal would be more acceptable to them than the scheme originally envisaged by .the board. The meeting with the distributors wa% fixed for November o. and it will then be open to the distributors to make any suggestions regarding the proposed schemes.