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PRICE GUARANTEE LEVEL MINISTER’S SUGGESTION SAME AS LAST YEAR OBJECTION BY DAIRYMEN (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, has suggested that the guaranteed price next season for dairy produce should be that announced by him for the present season. This was indicated by the chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board, Mr. W. E. Hale, when he was speaking in the city yesterday to a meeting of dairy producers of North Canterbury. Mr. Hale added that the industry would not agree to the Minister’s suggestion. He said also that the dairy industry, having accepted the guaranteed price as an established principle of the Government and having mutually agreed on standards of costs of production, which should be altered only in very exceptional circumstances, was not prepared to accept any variation of standards recommended by the 1938 advisory committee.
Moreover, in the present conditions any return to the basis of accepting an' open market price would be unthinkable, nor was the suggestion favoured that an expert committee go into the question of farm costs, as this would simply mean reopening an inquiry that was satisfactorily completed last year. i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19894, 23 March 1939, Page 6
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198PLAN DISPUTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19894, 23 March 1939, Page 6
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