DAIRYMEN'S DOUBTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 53, 18 March 1937, Page 5

DAIRYMEN'S DOUBTS

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Minister's Optimism At Farm Prices BUTTERFAT GOING UP

(By Telesraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. Addressing the Dairy Board conference, the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, said ther© had not been 100 per cent of co-operation from the industry, a small section not having rendered all .the assistance it might have. However, the Dairy Board's assistanee and the industry had helped the Government materiaUy in iinplementing its policy. ' The Government claimed it.had stabilised conditions for the man .on the land. The guaranteed price was a generous interpretation of the price that had been paid over the last eight to ten-year period, The compensatory price which some were advocating was in line with what the Government was proposiug. Eegarding estimating the next season's guaranteed price, the Minister said he believed that the increased costs to be met by butter factories would be very slight indeed (Cries of "Oh, Oh," and laughter). The Government recognised the necessity of stabilising the cheese industry and the butterfat payout differences would be reviewed in the light of experience of this season, continued the Minister. Mr C. J. Parlane asked whether Mr Lee Martin seriously believed that butter factories would be paying ld. per lb. moro for butterfat than last year. The Minister replied that efficiently run factories would. A voico : You ought to know better.