FINEST GRADE BUTTER.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17679, 2 September 1929, Page 5

FINEST GRADE BUTTER.

MR. lORNS IN REPLY.

TO SOUTH ISLAND SECRETARY,

A FARCICAL STATEMENT.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 2.

In the course of a statement in connection with the dairy controversy, Mr W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Board, remarks that the secretary of of the South Island Association appears to object to the Board approving of the butter contract without consulting indivdiual factories. This is exactly what the South Island Association did some years ago. They agreed 1 with the exporters regarding a standard contract without consulting individual factories, and, in. the face of objections from representatives of the National Dairy Association.

The- North Island statement that the adoption of .finest grade as a basic grade dn butter contracts represents a loss to the producer is, of course; farcical. Those who object to a basis of finest grade seem to imagine that if the buyer were offering 1/6 f.o.b. for finest butter and 1/53 for firstgrade, then if the standard contract provided for first. grade as a basis buyers would offer 1/6 for first-grade and 1/61 for finest. The secretary of the South Island Dairy Association and his friends might imagine that exporters are 'rogues, but we. cannot think they hold the opinion that they are fools. Mr lorns also says Mr "Wright is making a mistake when he says the Board has an approved clause in the cheese contract, which provides for a premium for finest grade. The Board has not discussed nor has it agreed to any of the clauses of the suggested standard cheese contract.