THE PRICE OF BUTTER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1624, 14 October 1916, Page 2

THE PRICE OF BUTTER.

FINED HY ORDER-IN- COUNCIL. Wellington, Last Night. Tim Hon. W. H. MacDonald, President of the Hoard of Trade, nut do the following statement to-night covering the Gazetted regulations governing the price of butter. The principle underlying the scheme was that those factories supplying the local market at the price li.xed would he compensated for tin* difference between the fixed local price and the export price from a"fund to be raised by flic issue of export licenses to both butler and cheese factories. Only those butter and cheese factories that lake out export licenses will be allowed to export. The fee for the export license will be lixed from time to lime by the Board of Trade on a basis of (lie butter fat entering the factory. The contribution fixed by to-day’s Urder-iu-Comicil is i;d per pound of Imlter fat and the price at factory for butler is -fits 4d per cwt., or Is 4d per

pound. Tilt* administration of the scheme lies been placed iu the hands of Mr Triggs, Public Service Commissioner, who has handled the imperial meat supply scheme. Fa dories will be supplied with the necessary forms on which to make application for license to export. It is hoped that the committee appointed by the recent conference of dairymen will bo available to assist the Board of Trade with advice in carrying out the scheme and in helping to remove any difficulties that: may arise.

AX AUCKLAND PiiOTEST, Auckland, Oct. 13. The Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union passed a strongly worded resolution protesting most emphatically against the continued interference by the Government with I he juices such as is proposed with reference to the supply of butter for local consumption. “We call attention to the fact that the farmers’ cost of production has enormously increased and a comparison of present with former prices is most misleading. We contend that the cost of living has been affected by a general rise in the prices of commodities, and we fail to see any reason why butter should be singled out for special treatment.”