LOCAL BUTTER PRICES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 4

LOCAL BUTTER PRICES

(To tlio Editor of flio Herald.) Sir, —My confrere farmers in England inform wo that if Australia and New Zealand dairy farmers arc going to dump, their butter on the English market, as they havo done with the sheep, which market is ruined in England by their dumping, so the same thing will happen to the dairy farmer. And by dumping they mean: that if the butter was sold in Australia and Now Zealand at the same average price as they get in England hundreds of tons more would ho sold in Australia and New Zealand, and that less for the English market to consume. There is not a child in Australia and New Zealand who would not consume another Jib. per week ami ho all 1 he, better for it, hut they are robbed of it- at ltd per lb. If you insistently persist in raising local 'pri< :os you aro only driving your export butter prices to ruination and you will soon have it at sevenpenco per lb., cheaper than margarine per lb,; in fact your sails aro full set, for it; but the pity is you do not appear to be awaro of it. I nslc Messrs. A. «T. Sinclair, J. 11. Sunderland, and P. If. Hamilton do they consider they are playing the game either to the English farmer, the English market, or the New Zealand child.—Yours, etc., PRACTICAL PARMER.