DAIRY PRODUCE CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 14

DAIRY PRODUCE CONTROL.

DANGERS AHEAD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce discussed the dairy control position to-day, and adopted the following statement: — "The Wellington Chamber of Commerce leani3 with considerable anxiety that the Dairy Control Board is under no necessity to go to the Government for authority to exercise full control of the dairy products of this country, thus finally removing in one stroke the safeguards thought to he available when the bill was before the House. The chamber, while commending all the efforts at improvement of the quality of the Dominion products and marketing conditions, calls upon the Dairy Control Board not to wantonly disregard the voice of this chamber, which dissociates itself entirely from expressing the views of directly interested persoiis, but seeks to protect the fabric of commercial and mercantile activities, which makes production, transport, and distribution possible, and which in turn makes the market what it is. ]t is the opinion of this chamber that the Dairy Control Board is not fully seized of the possibilities and dangers ahead, and in rushing beyond the limited control, judiciously adopted in the ease of the Meat Control Board, it exposes the industry to the hostility of those interests in a position to do this country incalculable harm by supporting through finance and patronage our principal competitors in the trade. The chamber calls upon the Dairy Control Board to hesitate before launching out into unknown waters and to give due study to the economic factors which have made the dairy and all the other industries what they are to-day."