BUTTER STORAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1926, Page 4

BUTTER STORAGE.

WELLINGTON, June 2G. The secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Producers’ Board (Mr T. C. Brash) stated to-day that the Board did not contemplate that, when it assumed control, there would he any necessity to hold butter in New Zealand longer than nine or ten weeks. The interviewer remarked that it was understood that some November butter was still in New Zealand. Mr Brash: Tf that is so, it is not

line in any way to the Board. In answer to other questions:, he made it 1 clear that the Board was in no way responsible for the over-storage—. amounting in some cases to ten months or a year—that had been going on during the past two seasons. Tie agreed that anything above six months was too long. The Board was not going to stand for a new sort of speculative storage, but was .going to terminate an over-storage that already existed in certain cases. The Board sought to stabilise conditions on a basis of regulated supplies fair to. consumer and producer, and consistent with as short a storage as possible. The Board did riot believe that butter benefitted by keeping, though it was a fact that some makes of butter kept longer than others. Do you think that, in ordinary circumstances, no butter will be longer than six months between churn and consumer?” “ I think that will prove to be the ease when the Board takes control,” came the answer. “ and that everybody will benefit.” I