BUTTER PRICES.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 February 1918, Page 6

BUTTER PRICES.

LOCAL SUPPLIES WITHDRAWN.

PALMERSTON N., Feb 15

A meeting of dairy factory representatives unanimously that as all efforts have failed to establish an equalisation fund to bring factories supplying the local market to the same position as exporting factories, the factories represented withdraw from the local market on February 28. Speakers expressed the opinions that the Government had failed to do justice to factories supplying the local market. Equalisation should have been establied when the Imperial Government bought New Zealand butter,

out of which should be paid any profits above the local price arising from the sale of butter in the United Kingdom.

In reference to the resolution adopted by the representatives of dairy factories at a meeting in Palmerston North, that they will withdraw from supplying the local market on the 28th inst, the Prime Minister stated to-day that the local market will not be allowed to go bare, nor will the present prices be increased.