DAIRY CONTROL.

Wairarapa Age, 26 October 1926, Page 5

DAIRY CONTROL.

HOSTILITY IN GREAT BRITAIN. TRADE STRICTURES. LONDON, October 23. Opposition to the proposed methods of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board by traders in London is expressed in forcible letters to “The Grocer” newspaper by an ex-president of the Wholesale Produce Merchants’ Association and the president of the Retailers’ Association. The former sajfs: “The quite deplorable position of the market for New Zealand butter is the direct result of those who are experts in the manufacture of butter taking to themselves the altogether independent business connected with the marketing of butter.” He attributes the heavy fall in values primarily to the large quantities of New Zealand butter held in cold store on the instructions of makers who “dp not seem to understand that there is not, and never will be, the same demand for old butter as for fresh.” Commenting on the subject, “The Grocer” says: “At present business in New Zealand butter is in a Very bad way. Buyers are not interested in butter which has been in cold store and lost its flavour. The question may well be asked: Do the New Zealand authorities, looking back on their policy, regard the results -with equanimity? There are maprc members of the trade in the United Kingdom who endorse the correspondents ’ suggestion that the control scheme is an intolerable interference with the laws of supply and demand as far as England is concerned, and the dictation of prices and restrictions on methods of selling will surely bring the market level for New Zealand produce lower than would be the case if there were no interference; ”—(Aand N.Z.)