THE BUTTER MARKET

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 202, 21 May 1920, Page 10

THE BUTTER MARKET

QUESTIONS FOB PEODUCEES. The greatest uncertainty prevails as to til© possibilities of. the butter market for next year. The Government is not concerned in tho matter at all, because the representatives of the butter producers intimated to the Prime Minister that tlioy would not agree to anything but a froo market, and since then the Government has had nothing to do with the business of the sale of the next season's output. The position about the sale of this butter is extremely obscure. It is not at all clear from the cablegrams ' whether or not the control in England is going to continue next summer and winter. The indications are that it will continue. If this should prove to be so, then the negotiations for the sale of our tatter mean nothing at. all, liecause the butter oil arrival in England will become the property of the Britis.!: Government, nnd all contracts will be voided. This difficulty is quite well recognised among the butter producers, nnd_« fuller realisation of its importance is grasped by some than by others., There is some evidence of thiß.in the rumour that there is d ; ffereuce of opinion between sections of (Ac producers 011 tins question of sale to the British Government, or, oil the other hand, free market, riomo of the producers are said to bo in favour of a sale to the Government, on terms to be arranged, for it has already been announced that the British Government did offer to negotiate vit.h the New Zealand producers. As a matter of fact,- it is now common knowledge that all tho producers of moat and wool nnd other products requisitioned during the war years bw not nearly so iilcusccl with the prospect of a free market as they were spine months ago, before it was quite certain that the commandeer was to cease. 1 Hero U 110 news about the cheese market next season, except that the British Government will not be a buyer..