PRICE OF BUTTER.
The Wellington Trades and Labour Couniail has asserted that a "butter fi-ing" exists in New Zealand, and ' has :• the Government to remove the duty on this commodity, and to establish State dairy farms. •The Minister of Customs has politely refused to do either. He rightly scouts the idea of the existence of a "ring," knowing, as he must do, that although there lias been a slump in the London market, the quantity of butter available for home consumption is much less than 'in former years, in. coaxseqneEuce of the early closing down' of the factories. The question of the free admission of Australian! butter .is, as. the Minister points out, one entirely for Parliament. The Trades Councils have themiselves largely to blame for the import duties. They clamour for the protection of local industries for their own special benefit, and -when they find the shoe directly pinching them, they demand free trade.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10266, 19 June 1911, Page 4
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155PRICE OF BUTTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10266, 19 June 1911, Page 4
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