COMMANDEERED BUTTER
adjustmenTof profit. CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Representatives of the butter producers are to meet the Minister in Charge of Imperial Supplies (the Hon. D. H. Guthrie) on Tuesday to discuss with him the distribution of profits made on the sale of requisitioned butter in England. The discussion will be of considerable importance, for the butter men are raising the questions that were connected with the old butter levy, and arc asking for payment on a cheese parity.
It seems clear that in order to do jus. tiee to all the interests concerned, including suppliers to the local market, there will have to be p.r equalisation scheme of some kind. The butter levy was an attempt at an equalisation scheme and it met with the wholehearted condemnation of the men associated with the dairying industry. There will be no reimposition of this levy in its original form. The alternative seems to be the application of an equalisation scheme to export produce. This might amount to a levy on export butter, cheese and dried milk. Such an arrangement might not differ much in principle from the old butter levy, but men in the industry consider that it would lie less offensive to the producers.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13814, 19 July 1918, Page 5
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