The Butter Commission

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1138, 5 November 1904, Page 2

The Butter Commission

«.<i >i ai M n o.t Jo or ri EHI Mkhioukne, November 4 Tub manager of tlio P. and 0. Company, examined before tlio Butter Commission, said that his company p\id (keeper cout, freight on hitter, which was not a relink but was brokerage in tlio ordinary senso of the t6nii.

ME PROGRESS REPORT f.-wr. >.winmrinn.—lJODYrigfci. llrliiournk, November 4 Tlio Butter Commission lias issued a progress report, leaving tlio nefarious practices of tlio exporters, the systematic corruption of employees and otiiors, Ami tlio unjustifinblo practieo of receiving secret rebate commissions, to be doalf. with in the final report. The first suggestion in the presont report is hi opon a butter oxclintinc, in order to provont the system of firms as nominal agonts of producers. Fixing tlio price in conference, according to their idoa, londs itself readily to tlio encouragement of speculation, which would bo advcrso to tlio primary interests of producers,

On tho next question, that of grading, tlio Commission urn fully convinced that it would bo of great value to the industry if no buttor was allowod lo leave in an ungraded stnto, and they urge exporters to tako Btops to reap a similar advantage to that which New ZonLmd litis secured by the aid of legislation. Tho question of freights had reached an acute stage, and a concession should be obtained. Jt was clear that a hnlf-psnny per pound would pay tho companies. The commission strongly disapprovo of tho agreement proposed to bo entored into by tlio mail companies and buttor freight coinmittoo, binding the factories to three years' export by the mail steamers at liveoisjths of a penny. They viow with disfavour any attempt to nogotiato while tlio wholo mattor is snbjudieo, mid urge that prodticors wait till the final report is issued.