PRICE OF BUTTER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19523, 24 June 1933, Page 8

PRICE OF BUTTER

SINCLAIR PLAN OPPOSED. EXPLOITATION OF CONSUMERS. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 3. Emphatic opposition to the Sinclair plan to control the price of butter on the local market was expressed today by Mr C. P. Agar, a newly elected member of the Dairy Control Board, and managing director of Tai Tapu Dairy Company. "Nobody to my knowledge would sell butter below its value on the local market, or anywhere else,” said Mr Agar, “and therefore the object of the scheme is to obtain a higher price from the consumers of New Zealand than the commodity is worth. I think neither the public nor the Government will stand for this. The only other objective of the scheme could be that North Island producers desire to share the benefits of the South Island local market. I doubt whether South Island producers would be silly enough to fall in with this suggestion. I believe it is the duty of the representatives of producers to obtain as high a price as the commodity is worth, but in these times of dire distress I am opposed to any form of exploitation of any section of the community." All other representatives of the dairy industry seen here agree with Mr Agar. One expressed the opinion that the South Island should not be asked to support the North, and as the North Island had a greater export parity that was what the scheme would amount to.