Victorian Butter Commission.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7722, 26 January 1905, Page 2

Victorian Butter Commission.

in Intermediate Report MELBOURNE, J mi, 25. The llutter Commission, In a. progress report, states that, £13,.180 jvus paid by mail companies to cmv Xaiin lirms, of which £12,1:22 wait paid to ltartrain ami Hon. That &- [mount was a rebate oil' freight, not .brokerage earned in the ordinary |\vtty. The payment of secret sum* hud stopped shippers from getting a reduction in freights. Oiwcuastiig freights generally, the commission believes the companhs are sul&* ciently strong and influential to dw mand their own terms from pr#» ducero, As such a stule o1 aftairs os a menace to the Australian export trade in butter, it call* for united efforts on the part of the .States to place the trade outride on Influence which has tbo power of the burdens of primary producers ; and recommends tho producer* not to enter into any contract* binding | thorn to pay more thun a halfpenny ]>er pound frwjjht, I (ltecoivcd Jan. 25, jo.ao n.m > MELHOIHNE, Jan. 25, I As an outcome of the liulter Commt ssion s report the (loverameut has determined on arrangements in coojunction with producers for a halfpenny freight, | Coiuiucnting on the report tne Amusks whether the Government will nmv promptly and efficiently act cW U ,m h^ oUo,,B ' Thu '"I*" - de- , N cuuse to complain gainst the mull companies. in-«o-far , th , l Ma - V of honest ■ investigations, that their payment of money to a favoured few was a violation of contract and ita ntoUvc to wiomr producers Short of a crin*™, Wtts . Mot *'«*>' «**y to say anj thing more inculpatory than this. t A J«« S say* the companle* have the plea of usage of commiswhjdi in thomselvew are no more justifiable than tips, and they really meant that any loss would g" to tho producers. The comnrt#. ' doeß not enter into any detailed answer to this import ition. It can only urge oMppera to "!" st u ''°" a hnif-penny freight in Ila of JJ 10 Mating thrmHTartMngs. Iho report si>euks somewhat airily of the Government Mag Jn „ „. i .J f " aWUtLU f,W » ht onpdriah. able producu but if freights are to bv reduced, the paper point* out. H can only be by business pronedure uud not by pa|>er schemes or hasty legislation interfering with established usages