GROWING CONCERN.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 346, 29 January 1937, Page 4

GROWING CONCERN.

Cheese Producers and Guaranteed Price.

Cheese suppliers, who form the majority of dairy farmers in the Stratford district, are at present watching with some concern the trend of the British market in relation to the New Zealand guaranteed price. Butter having sunk below the guaranteed price and cheese risen above it. it is almost certain that the conclusion of the first season under the new system will see the butter account in debit and the cheese account in credit. The Minister of Marketing, the Hon. Walter Nash, has intimated that any profits made under the system will be “returned to the industry.” Just how this is to be done, however, has not been made known, all enquiries being met with the same very general statement. The crucial question is whether or not profit on exported cheese will be distributed in such a way that some of it goes to the butter-producing section of the industry, for there is no doubt that if this is done many chees’e suppliers in the district will “see red.” INELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF. Only four returned soldiers in the Stratford district who are in receipt of war veteran allowances will not be el’gible for unemployment relief from to-morrow.