OUR BUTTER IN BRITAIN.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5034, 1 October 1926, Page 3

OUR BUTTER IN BRITAIN.

THE MILLION BOXES STORY.

"AN OUTRAGEOUS LIE.” Speaking .at the annual meeting at Invercargill of the Farmers’ Dairy Federation, the president, Mr John Fisher, an ex-member of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, who was defeated by Mr Timpany in the recent Southland election, referred to the statement cabled from London last week that a millitAi boxes of New Zealand butter were held in cold storage in Britain, which statement he characterised as "an outrageous lie.’’ Hq said that the total reservations made for /purposes of marketing did not average 10.6 per cent. , The imputation was that the Control Board had something to do with the hold up. Until the first day of thisj month the Board had absolutely nothing to do with the marketing bf produce. All it did was to regulate shipping in New Zealand. The cablegram emanated from an interested source, and he ventured to say that if the cablegram succeeded in the end it had in view, to weaken the hand of the producer, and if the right people bought 100,000 boxe&, prices would jump. The “million bobces in cold store” would disappear, and a cablegram would arrive to say .that New Zealand butter was sold out.