BUTTER.
; IMPERIAL STOCKS. INQUIRIES MADE. (From Our Correspondent.) PARLIAMENT BLDGS.,Dec. 21. In tho House to-day Mr ; Massey read a cablegram despatched to the Imperial authorities regarding the butter- position. The High Commissioner was advised that the British Board of Trade had been instructed to realise on the remaining stocks of butter immediately, and, the board was stated to be willing to sell these stocks, amounting to 8000 tons of -New Zealand and 1-1,000 tons of Australian, ail an exceedingly low price, and if this were done it must have the effect of so depreciating the market values for all butter that New Zealand producers would suffer severely. , The cablegram asked that action should be delayed until the. New Zealand Government could:>go thoroughly into the matter and consider proposals for meeting the position. Mr. Massey said that he had not I yet received a reply to this message.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15112, 22 December 1921, Page 5
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