BUTTER AND CHEESE.
the Imperial purchase. A member of the Thames Farmers' Union stated recently at Morrinsville that Mr Massey, while in England, had offered the New Zealand output of dairy produce to the Imperial Government at lOd per lb for cheese and 172s per ewt for butter.
The Prime Minister has stated in reply that he had made 110 offer of the kind during liis visit to England or at any other time. On the contrary, he had refused to consider prices until the shipping position was more clearly defined than it !had been in recent months. The matter was at present in the hands of the High Commissioner, and he would place the new arrangement before the representatives of the dairy industry as soon as. the negotiations had reached a sufficiently advanced stage. That would be in the near future.
There is ground for believing that the price to be paid for butter will be in the neighborhood of 180s per cwt, without share of any profit made by the Imperial Government on distribution in the United Kingdom. This arrangement would be in Hue with the bargain already made for the Australian surplus of butter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1918, Page 3
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