BUTTER AND WOOL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 26, 26 October 1920, Page 10

BUTTER AND WOOL

FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR

PRODUCERS

COMPLETION OF BUTTER CONTRACT

Mr. E. Newman (Manawatu) asked in the House of Representatives if the Government would be able to give financial support to 'butter and wool producers who had to hold their produce in store. He said that some suppliers of butter were encountering considerable difficulty iu getting advances. Could any assistance be given to farmors who were holding their wool in the sheds?

The Prime Minister, in reply, said he was plen.?(;d to be able to state that the Imperial Uoverninwit had bought the whole of Ivew Zealand's exportable surplus of butter. The British authorities had made an. offer, which had accepts! by the representatives of the producers in all parts of the country. He did not (|uilo understand liow somyj .small producers, who were not selling for export, could come under the contract. If •tlioy could be provided for, nobody would be better pleased than himself. He was not going to place any difficulties in the way, and he would bo pleased to make inquiries, in order to sea if an arrangement could be made. ~ „ , Eeferring to wool, Mr. Massey said that no definite arrangement as to finance had been made up to tho present The piar-kj-t was so unsettled that it would 'be very difficult to arrange any scheme, but ho had no doubt that something would be done before the beginning of the new members urged the Government to <io full justice to men who aro producing butter 011 the farms. These men had been selling tlieir butter to retailers at a few peneu under the rate prevailing for factor/ butter. If they were compelled to continue this arrangement now that tho Government was subsi-(lising ftictoi butter to the extent of alwut Cu. per pound thev would be faring hadly in comparison'with the men who send their cream to the factories. Hie small men, said the niWnbers, wcrc mostlj in tho back-Mocks, out of reach of the f . actorl 3 and they might not to be denied the benefits that ot'/er producers were 6.-'tt" l o now that the export price had risen.