PREFERENCE TO SHIPPERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 8

PREFERENCE TO SHIPPERS.

EXPORTERS' COMPLAINT.

(Per Press, Association.)

WELLINGTON, last night. A rather curious position has arisen in connection with the. export of butter from the Wellington province. The Dairy Produce Committee of..jihe:ChainT ber of Commerce has had the subject under consideration, and at to-day's meeting Mr J. B. McEwan made an interesting" statement. He said that dairy exporters were in a difficult portion. Formerly thg National Dairy Association had been a representative educative body which ix_et to fight for the inter•ests of exporters generally. Some years iigo, however, the National. -Dairy .■-Association became a trading body, *oonu peting with other exporters. As such it had entered into a contract .vith the Shaw, SavilL and. Albion Company and the Newj, Zffuaqd Shippiug Qoxppa-ny fo.t tthe> export of its dairy produce. It was .manifestly unfair to other exporters, antt*. 1 " tthaV -worse-, --%h6 tatter ' had just..,b^e*ea.info|3nedi- unofficially that.., a new contract for five years had been entered inte-Ajy- the-ASs_ociatt6ii. -Natmv ally, the Association could use the contaract to attract business, and in other ways the position favored the.t-Associa-tion as a«aa^_^l^t^ie^.*.3e)|portei*s J . t although the latter ix^d the r saitie^freights. Exportevs did hot see why one finrAvshoiUd hasvg such,; a dpref4»e^e.,- Ifcijop-jld go to daiTy 1 factories" and say. "We liave the ixmtract. We can treat you better than others can." Other ' exporters had just sent out a Girftolar- fetter to factories pointing out .the position. Mi* C. W. Jones said that he did not thjnk the matter was; one for-'th^iCham-l>er..Aij^'was father ai: matter for the rival companies. ' v

Mr McEwan •. "I don't think so. Surely a matter affecting exporters who -ire members of tbe Chamber _js ope to deal with and help if it can." '7 It ; waafrei-oived* that* at'sub-'fcuntthittie should he set up to report upon the matter.

None of the members of the committee are interested either in shipping *or-ex-porti^butleri^i 3 *"- n'uac._,ti -yor!