CONTROL BOARDS AND SHIPPING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 9 April 1925, Page 4

CONTROL BOARDS AND SHIPPING.

An important side issue has arisen during the proceedings of the Commission that is inquiring into the purchase of meat works at Poverty Bay. Mr. Lysnar suggested at yesterday's hearing that the shipping arrangements made by the Meat Board for the transport of meat had so seriously interfered with the handling of butter that a loss had been suffered of £550,000. Mr. David Jones, chairman of the Moat Eoard, who at the moment was giving evidence, said the handling of butter had nothing to do with the Meat Board, but was the business of the Dairy Board. He did not think the arrangements of his own Board had adversely affected the operations of the other body. Mr. Lysnar is not exactly a disinterested party in this matter, but it seems to us his statement is too serious to be passed over. He definitely suggests that in looking after meat interests the Meat Board has been the cause of the dairying industry losing half a million. If there is anything in this suggestion, one naturally asks what the Dairy Board was doing, and whether it was in its power to prevent or reduce such loss. A statement by the Dairy Board is called for. Our dairy products are much more valuable than our meat.