DOMINION BUTTER

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19455, 20 December 1934, Page 11

DOMINION BUTTER

REPLY TO CRITICISM. ENGLISH FIRM REBUKED. MR W. A. lORNS’ RETORT. (3y Telegraph,—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Interviewed! regarding the cable message in to-day’s paper, which refers to an advertisement by the British firm of Aplin and Barrett, who contend ’that the margin in price between : Danish and Empire butters is due to legislative measures and to importers having been prevented from speculative buying, Mr W- A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Board', said the so-called ‘'’legislative” measures referred to are evidently the agreement for more orderly marketing come to between the United ’Kingdom Importers’ Association and the Dairy Board, under which the importers handling New Zealand butter and cheese on consignment undertook not to speculate in New Zealand butter and cheese. This stipulation has been recognised by ’the Dairy Commission as very desirable and has been approved! of by the importers themselves. The wholesale importers and merchants, such as Aplin and Barrett, are not prevented from speculative buying if they desire to do so. No connection can be proved between the marketing regulation referred To and! the price of Danish butter as the difference in price between .Danish and New Zealand butters twelve months ago, when no,regulations existed, was practically the same as to-day. The supply of Danish butter largely determines its price and with Danish butter in very’ short supply to-day the margin between it and New Zealand is correspondingly large. “The firm whose advertisement was referred to was strongly opposed, to the institution of the marking order in which - the Dominion interests •sought to make it compulsory to mark New Zealand and Australian butters with the name of the country of origin,” Mr lorns added. “This firm has consistently refrained from advertising New Zealand and Australian butter as such, and is one of, if not The largest,, (blenders of butter in Great Britain.

"The Dairy Board considers that one way In whloh the margin In price between New Zealand and Danish butter can be lessened Is by New Zealand butter being sold under Its own name.”