DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 15, 16 June 1911, Page 13

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Dear Worker, —The dairying industry in New Zealand is absolutely rotten. At the present time factories have big quantities of butter stored and will not sell until the prices are up j they anticipate getting Is 6d per pound. On top of this the "New Zealand Dairyman" is always howling because so many thousand pounds more water are not added. Commercial morality I If there is any institution in the country more greedy and grasping than the average dairy factory- I should like to know of it. Of course most factories are owned by the suppliers, who in turn are owned by the landlords. I know of dairy farmers who are paying £3 per acre rent; these men are simply slaves, also their wives and children. The landlord gets everything they earn. Why they submit to this and are always against the factory employee beats mc, but it is a fact. They are always wailing about the employees' union, whose men in a hutter factory work 60 hours and in a cheese factory 70 hours, each of 7 days, including Christmas and all holidays.—l am, etc., Palmerston. BUTTER-FAT.