THE PRICE OF BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1916, Page 3

THE PRICE OF BUTTER.

SEAMEN'S TiNION PROTEST. FARMERS AND THE WAR. Auckland. October 24. . The Auckland Federated Seamen's U." on. at a mei't : :ig passed the following resolution relating to the price of butter;— 'That having considered the resolution forwarded by the General Laborers' Ln:cn, the Aucii'imd Seamen's Union is of the opinion that the price of butter is still excessive, in view of Australia having fixed it at 1?. 4d per lb, and boars hardly on the wo-kers in meeting the allround increase ir. the cost of living. We congratulate the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald on his firm stand for the people ag.iinst selfish i'.'ierests. But in view of the tact that an attempt i? afoot to defeat the Government's decision, we urge tho executive of this union to at once cmsider the advisability of manning s*:ps conveying butter, should the Government's action be frustrated and the price again increased. The existing short•4 c. f seamen is due to the fact that this organisation is being bled white in sending men to the front, and the attitude of its members is in marked contrast to the striking tactics of many farmers' families in certain Waikat'i districts, who are too busy amassing wealth to listen to the Empire's call for men—an attitude which iecently caused a member of Ihe Waipa County Council to remark that 'he had suin some of the lists of shirking families. and was almost ashamed to be a farmer. Some of the best-known and wealthiest families in the Waikato were hr.nging back, placing Waikato among e greatest of the shirking districts in the Dominion.'" Copies of the resolution were ordered *o be forwarded to various Cabinet Minis- .. , . s ' i > CANTERBURY FARMERS' RESENT- . . MENT. Cliriitehureh, October 25. The executive of the North C'antcrli' iy Farmers' Union has passed the following resolution: "This Farmers' U;iion protests !i;;ainst the arbitrary act'jn of the Govnunent in singling out the dairymen o ( Neiv Zealand for class taxation. We maintain that the position is economically unsound, and is, besides, unmoral in principle. In the modern order cf things butter is no more a necessary- than a thousand other things, and wo strongly protest against the tax on buttei, and uphold the Dorriiicn executive in it? efforts to obtain redress."'