BUTTER FREIGHTS.

Wairarapa Age, 26 October 1926, Page 4

BUTTER FREIGHTS.

RAILWAY CONCESSION ABUSED. PRICE-CUTTING IN WELLINGTON. Questioned yesterday regarding the effect that the Waikato dairy companies’ action in railing butter on a reduced freight to the Wellington market was having on Wairarapa butter sold on the same market, Mr. J. C. Ewington, chairman of the Masterton Dairy Company, stated that the Waikato people, though they were strong advocates of co operation were not in this matter living up to their own expressed principles. c 4 Mr. Ewington added that the reduced freight was allowed by the Railways Department ostensibly to assist inland companies, in railing their export produce to a convenient port, but it was being taken advantage of by the Waikato companies to place their butter on the Wellington market and undersell their competitors. On it being pointed out that the reduced freight rate seemed as much available to companies here willing bo sell in Auckland as to Waikato companies desirous of selling in Wellington, Mr. Ewington stated that few companies here had sufficient local trade butter in stock to make up the minimum of 500 boxes needed before the rate operated. One big company had taken advantage of the rate, said Mr. Ewington, to the disadvantage of every other company in the Wellington province.