PLAN DENOUNCED

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1933, Page 5

PLAN DENOUNCED

PRICE CONTROL BUTTER ON LOCAL MARKET. (Per Press Association—Copyright). CHRISTCHURCH, June 23. Emphatic. oppositon to the Sinclair Plan to control, the price of butter, on the local market was expressed today by Mr XV P. Agar, the newly- ', elected member of the Dairy Control; Board and managing director of tha xai Tapu Dairy Company. “Nobody, to my knowledge, would sell butter below its value op the local market, or anywhere else,”' said Mr Agar, “and therefore tho object of tha scheme is tcuobt-airi a higher price front the consumers of Kew Zealand than the commodity is worth. I think that, neither the, public nor the Government will stand for this. The only’.'other: objective of the scheipe could.rise tha# tile North Isjand. prodiic-ere desire to share the'.'benefits of the South Jsland local market, I .doubt .wither the South Island ; producers > t would be silly enough, to fall in with this suggestion. >1 believe it is the suty,of tlje representatives. of ’ the- producers tA .obtain as -high .a, price as, the, eominc-dity is worth, , but, in theso times of f dire stress, !, ain opposed tp- any form of exploitation of Section', bf" the community.' i ■- -All the other representatives ’pf, thV.A dairy industry- hero- i\gve«- with Mr . Agar.: 1 ; , - One expressed, the .opinion that- the . South. Island . should not ..be aeked to support t&e Norths and -as the .North Island had the greater export parity that was' wha£; / this' scheme would amount, to. ,4- ...