BUTTER CONTROL.
TRADE’S RESENTMENT. SUGGESTED BOYCOTT SCOUTED. MR GROUNDS’ OPINION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Nov. 8, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 7. The New Zealand Dairy Control Board, in fixing butter prices at 148 s to 150 s per ewt, caused resentment on tlie market amounting to suggestions to boycott. Mr Gough, Hie overseas farmers’ repres.eillative, in an interview said: “The talk of a boycott is hot air. During the recent slackness buyers had not bothered to discriminate because of a few shillings difference between Australian and New Zealand butter. The retail price is so low that it practically stifles Dominion trade, which is now only a-fiftli of the normal. Present supplies are chiefly from Ireland and the Continent. Control docs not affect the real position, tho problem being to dispose of Hie quantities of New Zealand butter stored in Britain.”
Mr Grounds said: “The boycott report was untrue, and was being inspired by the Opposition for propaganda purposes. Sales were as normal as could be expected in the present depression. So far as Now Zealand was concerned there was nothing to be dissatisfied about."
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16946, 8 November 1926, Page 7
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