DOMINION DAIRY PRODUCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3477, 4 May 1920, Page 5

DOMINION DAIRY PRODUCE.

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PROBABLE lEIPERIAL OFFER.

HAMILTON, May 3‘

E At a recent meeting of the Domin , ion Butter Committee, the Rt. Hon. W. 'F. ‘Massey was requested to ask the Imperial Government to reconsider its previous decision and allow New Zealand dairy factories to consign theirproduce as in the past. A. previous communication received indicated that the Imperial Government intended not only to coil’Llnue”'fi'xatio-n of prices, but also to ration ‘butter during the next twelve months. If such should prove to be the case it xvould,'said ‘Mr W. Goodfellow, general manager of the New Zealand Dairy Association, to a Times reporter today, be obviously imperative that the whole of the butteriimported into Great Britain should be purchased in the first in-5 stance by the Imperial Government—. It would be out of the question, therefore, for the ‘lmperia’l Govern--ment to grant the request of the Dominion Butter Committee. Mr Goodfellow stated that from. private advice received from the eompany’s London agent, it was very probable that the Imperial Government would oifer the New" Zealand prnducors Err‘glish~{c.ontrolled '-prices. less actuai shipping and "selling charges, but-, of course,_ if such an arrangement was arrived at it would be quite necessary to’ stipulate that no other country was to be paid a higher price. Mr Goodfellow men,tioned :that the Canadian G dairy. producers were demanding complete de—. control of the British market, while Australian producers were asking for a free market or an equivalent to present retail prices, less commission. ,Mr T. C. Brash, assistant secretary to th_e National Dairy Association at Wellington, was recently sent to London for the purpose of being on the spot to conduct negotiations with the Imperial Government on behalf of the Dominion producers Being ' thoroughly conversant with the negotiations of of the past few years, Mr Brash could be depended upon to safeguard the interests of the dairy people,