BUTTER SUBSIDY

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 56, 30 November 1921, Page 6

BUTTER SUBSIDY

SOME PAYMENTS STILL DUE FARMERS WANT THEIR MONEY The unpaid portion of the butter subsidy was mentioned in the House again yesterday by Mr. 11. Poland (Ohineniuri), who addressed a question on the subject to the Prime Minister. Mr. Poland said that for the period from September 1, 1920, to March 31, 19-1, there was one penny per pound clue, aqd from April 1 to August 31 this year, twopence. The farmers were not receiving anything like the priced they had last vear, and if those accounts could Im squared up it would be a great benefit to them. He understood that the difficulty was over the audit, but lie had received information from Hamilton that the auditor was there m Octobei, that b" had not been there since and that the books of the dairy companies were balanced so that the money could lie paid over. He asked that the P r ™ Minister should endeavour to expedite the payments. ~ Air Mas«ey said he thought it would bo admitted that the Government was not trying to deprive farmers of the money, but as had been stated,.the difficulty was over the auditing. He <■ not able to go into details, but it had been reported to him that it was impossible to get the accounts audite 1. ' be Department bad three auditors going all over the Dominion doing th e auditing They were doing excellent work. Whe their reports were received the Department would make prompt final paynlADS’Poland: They are going through th- Dominion before anything is paid out?

“Jl'ttotoZu h»i «™ ~ bad as that. He did not suggest that there was anything'wrong, for there- " ' nothing of the sort. Though he had not had the opportunity of going into The accounts, he could say that there was some difficulty on that, score. As soon as the reports of the auditors wore received key would be very glad to l>ay out. The sooner that was . , don . e . for he wanted to get nd of the Ims' less.