GOVERNMENT BONUSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 148, 31 May 1883, Page 2

GOVERNMENT BONUSES.

The Chairman of the Ashburton Cheef • and- Butter Factory has receite'd the "following 1 communication from the Colonial Treasurer, m answer to a deputation, which waited on Major Atkinson when he was there : — " Sir, — Referring to the address which I had the honor to receive irom the Ashburton Cheese and Butter factory Company, Limited, upon mj recent visit to the factory, m which certain representations were made of the hardships the Company Buffers ; from the •nature-of the conditions imposed npon competitors, for the bonus offered by the Government for the production of cheese . : and butler on. a large scale, I have the honor to infprjoa jyou'lt^t since jny rer- ; turn to Wellington I have brought the 1 subject under the consideration"^ my" " coUeagaej9, t and the conclusion arrived at , by the Government is, that Bale of the ; products m question injlbcat markets is J not the object the Government had m i v\eWiinii(>ffeurig>the/:bonuSj asthereare i numbers of farmers who have generally V kept the market supplied without any j bonus whatever. The object aimed at j is, the creation of an export trade m articles which could be made here to a much larger extent than would be re- ] quired for local;, consumption. More* _J over, if the manufacture of the articles ' I under the American Bssteia.with.Qut the ]

uondiiion of export were all that is wanted, the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, is already m advance of the Ashburton Cheese and Butter Factory Company, having, m December, 1881, made a claim for the bonus, but withdrew it partly because of the condition of sale m a foreign market; stating, however, that their claim was withdrawn only m respect of the bonus then offered and not for that now advertised. From these remarks you will gather that the Government do not, I regret to say, think it desirable to make any alterations m the terms upon which the bonus is offered m the direction desired by your Company.