Dear Butter In
p. 66 · Read in the full issue
Fiji
THE price of Navua butter has followed that of the Rewa product by going up 2d. to 2/6 a pound. With New Zealand butter (which contains con siderably less water than the local pro duct) over 3/-, butter is to-day a scarce luxury for a great many people in Fiji, and frequent, if unspecific, references to the fact that high-quality margarine will probably be made here in a few months are widely welcomed.
The Advisory Committee on Agri culture has recommended that price con trols should be removed from local butter. During the committee’s dis cussion it was emphasised that if the industry secured the lifting of controls it would forfeit any claim to tariff pro tection in future. Canon W. G. Thomas, Anglican Mission, Dogura, Papua, recently visited Perth, WA on Mission business.