DISPOSAL OF BUTTER

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1920, Page 4

DISPOSAL OF BUTTER

HOME GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS HAS THERE BEEN AN OFFER? (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.). Wellington, Last Night. The announcement that the British! Government has offered to purchase the Australian exportable surplus of butter will be read with interest by the New Zealand producers. The official representatives of the producers of butter and cheese in New Zealand informed the Government here some time ago that they did not desire again to enter into any contract for the sale of their produce, but that they desired to have a free market for it. This being the case, the New Zealand Government is jn the position merely of a medium of communication between the, British Government and the producers here, :

A certain telegram dealing with butter was received by the Prime-Minister lately and by him sent on to the butter committee. It is quite probable that the British Government has made some offer for the purchase of New Zealand butter, or at least for the opening of negotiations to this. end. If so the producers may be called together in «oh« ference to consider the offer, but this may not even be necessary if the producers are quite fixed in their resolve to have a free market in future. In any, ease the next announcement regarding the sale of our butter will have to come '

from tho producers, although the communication may go first to Mr. Massey^;

TO BE PURCHASED BY BRITAIN, By Telejrrnph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Melbourne, April i>. Mr. Mnssey Greens announces thafi Britain has offered to purchase the coming season's surplus butter. The producers are sending delegates to London to negotiate.