Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 67, 13 September 1894, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE BUTTER TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OF TUB B TAR. Sib,— ln your issue of the 4th instant I notice a letter signed by Mr W. 6. Pearce covering a letter written to the New Zealand Mail by Mr Reynolds, of Reynolds and Co , Auckland, who seems to have taken great umbrage at the name of Reynolds and Co. being inserted in your paper (by mistake) for Reynolds, Son and Co., London. Mr Reynolds need not feel quite so sore on the point as Reynolds, Son and Co. are quite as respectable a firm as the one Mr Reynolds professes to be the head of. Messrs Reynolds and Co; are possessors of the same desire to make money as other firms, or why try and, get myself and others to send butter through them on commission ? I quito agree with Mr Reynolds that the farmers ought to get 3d per gallon of I libs. Do Reynolds and Co. pay 8d per gallon for all milk brought to their factories in Auckland ? 1 Bay so. I possess a copy of Reynolds and Co* s agreement with the suppliers to their creameries and factories in the Auckland district, and a more stringent document I never read, and payments msde by Babcoek test of 3d per gallon for 3.6 which Mr Reynolds knows will not work out much over2sd per gallon, the exact price I offered the MakiDo dairy farmers, and refused but accepted at Campbelltown. It seems to me Mr Reynolds preaches one thing and practices another. Mr Reynolds or no other man can do away with the iron rule that the price of an article is regulated by the supply and demand. I believe the suppl of bntter during the coming wiener in England will exceed the demand, so the prices in spite of anything Mr Reynolds or his committee can do, will come down from 10 to 20 per cent. No doubt there will always be a sale for a first-class article but at a reduced price I am, etc., W. W. Corpe.