DAIRY FARMERS WANT 1/6 LB.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 7

DAIRY FARMERS WANT 1/6 LB.

■FiMt Aasociation.)

Southern Dairy Association's Resolution INCREASED COSTS

(By Telesrripk-

? INVERCARGILL, Lest Night. f Thi need for a fcubstantial increase fi* tha guatanteed price for dairy proiduoe during the coming seaeon in order to eoter tlie increaaed costs oi production and manuf&cture because oi the Govorriment's recent l&gislation w.as mentioned by Mr. G. B. Hefron, chriirmea Oi tiro aWards Committee oi ihe South Island Dairy Association, in an addfess to dairy fhctory iupplifera at Edendale, but he field out very little hope bf ihe increaSO AppfoaoMrig that wMcfi has hdea claimed by variOus prodricdri' orgariiBbtiorifc "I have sdfeh corilputations by differ•rit producers' repfesentatives oi the amount oi the increase in the guaran;teed price feqtiired td fedver thfe incfeased costs resultirig from. the Government's Teeent legislation and most W them have been in the vicinity oi thfeepehce a pound bntterfat,,J' he said. "When in Wellington recently I learn.ed oi tiliable authority that We Would be Incky to get a thirdi o i a penny, let alonfe threfeperiefc. ' ' Mr. John Johnston said that the Minister oi Agricnltnte had dropped 1 hVnt at the South Island Dairy Gonference that the in&rfeasfe Wotild not be handtome. If the xise was only one-third oi a pdhty the prbdticfera Worild not get rifeh. on that. meeting pasSed a resOlUtiol tirging that payment to dairy farniers shodld be a miTrimiim Oi is 6d per pound butterfat or 1 prioe which wili enable daify farmeri td p&y wages corapetitiVe with other industries. nr i ji"ijr"~"Tr~~'f