DAIRY produce.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 12

DAIRY produce.

STABILISING PRICES. A WAIKATO RESOLUTION. U'KESa ASSOCIATION 1 ELEGIIAiI., HAMILTON, November 21. Four hundred dairv farmers, representing tJouth Auckland dairy companies, met at Ma tnmata to-day and discussed the buttor price-cutting war and schemes of stabilising prices. The following resolution was adopted: "That, in view of the extremely low prices of butter and the great disparity between New Zealand and Danish butter, the directors of cooperative dairy companies throughout the Dominion be urged to get together and reorganise their marketing methods, with the object of reducing the ruinous competition which exists between the various agents handling New Zealand butter on the overseas markets." The following resolution was also carried: "That, in view of tho higli cost of production and maintaining the Government and national services, and in consideration of the extremely grave economic position confronting the primary pioducers rendering it impossible to curry on other than at a lows, this meeting urges the Government to take immediate steDS to review and to relieve the situation in order to avert ultimate national disaster."