BUTTER AND CHEESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1918, Page 5

BUTTER AND CHEESE.

i "1 DISPOSAL OF mS.T SE&SCfiiffi ' | OUTEOT. " ,| DEPOTAHQIS' TO PBIME MIKIKEE&j, 'f J ' (From Our Own Correspandfiufc) , '--'A Wellington, April 25. '..: i ■Representatives of dairy interests wbo _jCi waited upon tlie Prime Minister to-day' : ,! asked that any arrangements made for : ~/' Mia requisitioning of next season's but* ..'& ter and cheese should be taken in hand '•"'*% early. They reminded Mr. Massey that ? last season there was delay owing to a. '. .3 change in control in the United King*- ' * dqm, and that producers were kept 5a i> a state of uncertainty for some time and -v had'difficulty in geting the advances they .;• required against produce delivered in' ' | ( store. They'asked the Minister to, -l] guard against a repetition of last year's - ■.temporary hitch. • , ■ The Prime Minister promised to do .' everything within his power to protect '• i tho interests of tho producers. He,' . r > Would have an opportunity while lid ', iqndon to confer with the Imperial aw- ! tliorities the Food Controller, and ho would try to get definite infor- ■-' mation and arrangements. The crux cH the whole matter, Mr. Massey added, '>, was the shipping problem. On that , 'i point ho could give no additional infor- •' -, mation. lie had no doubt at all that ''| the Imperial Government would take at •'■<." fair prices all the produce that tiiey > were able to move from New Zealand. He hoped that by ne\t season the shipping situation would Jiavo rased sufficiently %o make ships :,vailahlo for New Zealand's needs. But there was no disguising the fact that just at present the '■■- position was difficult.