THE BUTTER HOLD-UP.

Shannon News, 11 March 1927, Page 2

THE BUTTER HOLD-UP.

IS THERE A BOYCOTT? PRIME MINISTER HAS NOTHING TO SAY. "We have been wondering why Mr Coates has made no statement after his visit to England with its attendant opportunities to secure first-hand information about the dairy produce market," stated the secretary of a Palmerston dairy company when interviewed by the Standard yesterday. It was not, he hastened to add, that the dairy companies desired to place any responsibility on the Prime Minister or the Government, but that they looked to Mr Coates for enlightenment after his tour abroad;. "We particularly desire to know whether there is an organised attempt to boycott our butter," continued the company official. "It-certainty seems verf unpatriotic on the part of Home buyers that thej' should be paying 184 s for the produce of foreign countries like Denmark and leaving New Zealand's a drug on the market at 1645." I

A conference of Auckland dairy factory directors recently passed a resolution appealing to the Prime Minister: "In view of the unsettled conditions of the English market and the large accumulations of New Zealand butter, to make a report to the dairying industry concerning his personal investigations of the conditions obtaining in London." When the attention of the Prime Minister was drawn to this message, he confined his comment to the statement: "I am unable to discuss the matter,"