SALE OF N.Z. BUTTER.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16267, 18 July 1918, Page 6

SALE OF N.Z. BUTTER.

DISTRIBUTION OF PROFIT. (SPECIAL TO "THE PBESQ.") WELLINGTON, July 17. 1 The Hon. I>. H. Guthrie is to meet tho Dominion Butter Committee da Tuesday to discuss the distribution of profits from the sale of New Zealand butter in London, which has been requisitioned by the Imperial authorities. It is admitted that there must be profits from the fiale of this, butter, bat the problem of how to distribute the profits, if they aro to be distributed in this country at all, is not quite an eftsy one. The butter men say,'quite fairly, that thoy think it would be unjust to confine the distribution to the snippers of the butter, leaving out of account the people supplying the local market at the fixed prico of Is 5d per lb wholesale. They also argue that it should be possible so to enlarge the schemo as to equalise in some way the returns from butter with those of checse and other milk products, such as glaxo and condensed milk. This is getting perilously near the equalisation scheme which wm evolved by the Board of Trade and adopted by the Government a year ago. Tho butter men would not use such,a term as "equalisation scheme," seeing that they put up such a fight agaitut the Inst one, and it is. just as oertnin that the Government will not deal with tho business by such a method as a levy on butter-tot. It is understood that if there is to be ntiy equalisation, jt will bo done by a collection. of somo kind on the exported produce.