THE PRICE OF BUTTER.
ANSWER TO PUBLIC’S PRODUCER RECEIVING LESS By Telcgrnph --Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Tn the course of a statement in reply to critiei-ins regarding the price of but-* ter, Mr. Braah (secretary of the National Dairy Association) points out that this winter the producers are receiving 4d less than the summer price for bulk butter at the. factory door (Is which was increased to 2s lsd by the subsidy, which was actually a bonus to the consumers and not to the producers, for the cost to the general taxpayers of the removal of the so-called subsidy would mean a retail price of 2s sd. Tha cry of parity at the butter producer was sheer nonsense, the fact being overlooked that when it was -ummer in New Zealand it was winter in England. The producers would have a free, market after August. If they had had a free market period from July, 1920, they would have been receiving 2s 9d instead of the la 7 3-8 d paid by the Im* perial Government, which made a profit of £8,000,000 on New Zealand butter, and cheese in two years. That butter? was retailed in Britain at 3s 4d.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 5
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200THE PRICE OF BUTTER. Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 5
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