THE DAIRY TAX.
STATEMENT $Y MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE. Interviewed in Wellington on Monday with regard to the resolution passed by a_ meeting of the company representatives at Carterton on Saturday, protesting against the' continuance of the but-ter-fat tax of Jd per lb, the Hon. W. D. S, Mac Donald (Minister for Agriculture and Commerce) said: "There is no serious loss to the dairy farmers generally. The prices now are very much in advance of anything the.y have been previously getting, and it is very, questionable, taking average prices in the Home market, whether those who are selling in the Dominion are not doing quite as well, under the present arrangements, as those who are exporting. Tut summer prices are now practically over, and arrangements have been made for the winter prices. So far there does not &eem to be any great hardship inflicted on either the cheese or the butter men, and on comparative values there is yery little difference in price between cheese and butter at present prices, cheese having perhaps l& per lb the best of it.'<
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1917, Page 2
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179THE DAIRY TAX. Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1917, Page 2
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