TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 January 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

I — <. fPER PRESS ASSOCIATION,') THE BUTTER DEAL. Wellington, Yesterday. The Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald stated to-day regarding the butter position that 'the licensing authority, Mr Triggs, now was in a position to make an interim payment of -twopence per pound bryl way of compensation! to those factories supplying Gutter to the local market. factories doing tlieir own patting and distributing were placed on the same footing as those supplying butter through the middle man. r lhe Minister of Agriculture and the Advisory Committee mot 'representatiovs. ot tlj'e follmoligers and woolseourers to-day and readied a general working arrangement for dealing with stkins aaid pelts and low-grade wools on behalf of the Government. A ftnail conference fixes the price for doing the work.