BUTTER BOUNTY

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1932, Page 5

BUTTER BOUNTY

DE VALERA’S PLAN

ASSISTANCE FOR DAIRYMEN.

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LONDON, April 15

A Bill is -to be introduced in til. Dail Eireann on April 20th providing for a Uduiity of two pence a In. on exported butter, by means of a ' i..;vy on butcer production. It is believed in Dublin that prides on the Biv.ish market will touch low levels -this season and consequently the need for assistance. lor dairy men is urgent.

Assuming that the Irish butter expoi“ bounty becomes law, butter traders do not expect that it wiil affect the London price or sales of Australian butter. Ireland made inquiries into the -working of the Australian bounty scheme, on which 'their own is based, and consequently H; is believed that its only effect will be an increased price to the Irish consumers, with a consequent benefit to dairy men though all share in the payment of the levy.

LIKE AUSTRALIAN SCHEME

LONDON, April 16

“The Times’s” correspondent at Dublin says: The butter bounty proposal clearly indicates that President De Valera’s intention is to concentrate •Irish exports on the -British market, in which he is resolved to fighk not only the. Danish exporters, but also the Australians, and New Zealanders. The bounty he proposes should make the export price of the Irish Free States butter 110 s per hundredweight in Britain, as compared with 'the Irish home price of 147 s per hundredweight.

THE OATH REMOVAL BILL

DE VALERA’S DETERMINATION

DUBLIN, April 17

The Oath Removal Bill is being redrafted, and is to be introduced in the Dail this week, The Cosgrave Party will move a reasoned Amendment on itho second reading a fortnight hence.

De Valera had a conference, with Mr Norton, Leader of 'the Labour group,

and it is reliably staked that the Labourite's will vote solidly in favour of the Bill, which, when it is passed in the Dail, will be .sent to the Senate, which will either pass or suspend it for eighteen months.

In the eiv.((nt (of -suspension, De Valera is determined to have another general election, Lf he is then -success fu 1, the Bill will pass within -sixty days. Mearttimel there is considerable anxiety in trade and .industrial circles.

A Dublin firm of biscuit makers announce that if -the Free State becomes politically independent:, they wi.l be obliged to dispense with half of their workers, because the British import duties will prevent their competing with British firms. Similarly, they would be unable, -to export to the dominions and colonies.

The London “Observer,” commenting on De Valera’s reported plans to increase the sale of Irish butter in the British market, against Australian, New Zealand and Danish, -says “No thank you. Not on your terms. The British people have this business in -their own hands apart from -the Govennnien-.