PRICE OF BUTTER.
, FARMERS' STRONG PROTEST. A Press Association message frcd* Auckland says the provincial executive of the Farmers' Union resolved emphatically to protest against the Government placing requisitioned butter on the market at a price considerably less than the cost of production; that this, if persisted in, would warrant the forfeiture pt tlu farming community's confidence -in tf>e Government. The matter was brought to the notiss, of the Minister of Agriculture (the Hcav W. Nosworthy) by a Daily News repwsentative last night, but the Minister said that with such scant information b*«, fore him he was not prepared to cofcr' mant on the telegram, As far aft tfctl price of butter .was concerned, there *ri» nothing to say beyond the recent state*, menfc that the retail price of battel would be increased by a penny per, pound.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1920, Page 4
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138PRICE OF BUTTER. Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1920, Page 4
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