BUTTER AND CHEESE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 1, 26 September 1917, Page 4

BUTTER AND CHEESE

STILL NO NEWS. In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr.- Anderson' asked the Prime Minister whether he had yet received any definite reply from the Home Government regarding tho cheese output. Mr. Massey said-ho had no more information to give about the cheese than the butter. He had that morning forwarded a furtTfer cablegram to the High Commissioner regarding the butter question. TUo cheese problem was much simpler. The Imperial authorities had definitely stated that ; they would requisition it. They might not take the whole of the output, but the only question would be the fixing of the price. Mr. Wilford asked the Prime Minister whether ho wne ■ aware that butter was selling in ■ America to-day at 2s. 2d. a pound, and that 'a deputation proposed to wait on him asking that.the New Zealand output be sold for American consumption. ■ Mr. Massey 'said he knew nothing about tho deputation. So far as food stuffs were concerned the Imperial Government had instructed the New Zealand Government early in the war to see that no foodstuffs were sent outside the Empire without their consent, and that was the position at the present moment. If the Imperial Government did not want nutte- it would be possible to consider a proposal to sell it to America. ,