Dairy Produce Prices

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 7

Dairy Produce Prices

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(To tbe Editor.) Sir,— Your article, witb ptbere appearing througbout tbe leadiqg P4Per| of NeW Zealand, on tbe present pnce of out butter, and in fact all dairy produce on tbe Londdn niarkct sbould arouse considerable tbougbt in the minds Qf not only farmers, but all taxpayers in this country. The only explanation that can be drawn from tbo wholesale drop in London qf tbis produce is tbe bopeiess mismanagenrent of the Government in its selling arrangements witb • tbe bfokets of Tpoiey street. ' E'bglabd ie tbe ibost cobaSt'ti'atlve country in tbe world, aiid obce a conneetion is eStaHHsbed by bfhberfe witb ciients it in many ,cas£s feontibbes for generation&. Now tbe preSent Gqvernmebt, in their wisdom or unwisdom, have coiiceived it tbeir duty in inaby cbses to sever this conndction. Tbo brokers, serving tbe interests qf Mrge consumfers tbroughout Britainj . haye been forced to make provision for tbeir cllents in otber direetions and so prqvide otber dairy prodube wben ibey ■ife unable to liabdle NeW ZeHlaiid. Purtberuiore, through tbis . deplorable lack of Pusiness sense on tbq part oi our Marketing Minister it nmy takq bnotber forty years to get tbe business eonnoction back to tbe position it was at the time 'ke diwnembered it.— Youts, etc.,

Hastings, Februafv '18.