PATERSON PLAN AND PRICE

Shannon News, 4 November 1927, Page 3

PATERSON PLAN AND PRICE

A VOLUNTARY MEASURE,

Mr Duncan Christensen, a director of the Glengarry Dairy Company, Victoria, recently referred to “much unjust criticism of the Paterson Plan by one of the Gippsland Parliamentary representatives, who had said that dairymen were dissatisfied with it. Perhaps he meant that it did not go far enough, but half a loaf was better than no bread. By the Paterson plan the increase to the Australian producer for his butter had been about 2d a lb. That should be sufficient guarantee that a bounty on butter would probably be better, but it was problematical if a bounty would be paid. The only fly in the ointment in the Paterson plan, was the fact that it was a voluntary measure, and it only needed a few factories to secede from it to kill it. It had meant success to the Glengarry factory, which had benefited by £4OOO, addition to the price received for its butter.