EXPORT OF BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 262, 24 July 1918, Page 8

EXPORT OF BUTTER

EXPORTERS OONMR'WITH MINISTERS, The Dominion Butter Committee hail a conferenoe yesterday with the Minister in Charge of Imperial Supplies (the Hon. D. H. , Guflrrie) and the president of the Board of Trade (the Hon. W. D. S. Jlacponald). Their purpose waa to discuss .with tho Ministers tbo distribution of the 50 per cent, oharo allowed by,'the Imperial Government out of the "profits made by the sale in Britain of butter purchased in this country. No'decisions were made as the result of van conference, and there is to bo another meeting this morning, -when, certain legal aspects of the questions at issue, .will be submitted to the Solicitor-Gei)6ral. • The chief difficulties, in the matter are for the present legal ones The regulations governing the 'distribution of the profits made on the sale of this butter provide that the .profits must be distributed among the sellers of the butter pro rata, in accordance with the quantities of butter purchased and shipped. It is now suggested by the butter people that the proflte should be shared bV the suppliers of the local market, who receive a price which is no more than tho equivalent of the iprice paid for butter here by the Imperial Government without any share in the made on the butter in England. Th& Government of New Zealand cannot titer tho regulations without the consent of the authorities in Britain, and ito obtain this consent it would probably bo necessary to obtain the unanimous consent of the interested parties here. . '