THE PRESS AND BUTTER CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 156, 5 July 1927, Page 6

THE PRESS AND BUTTER CONTROL.

In its editorial of June 25 the "Exporter, 3 the official organ of the Dairy Control Board, makes the following statement under the heading -Our Tree' Press." It says: "No exception can be taken to an honest difference of opinion being held upon matters of policr vigorously and keenly exercised. But the interested Press has gone very much farther than this. It has allowed itself to be made the willing tool of the paid letter writer. It has suppressed and distorted correspondence u reply thereto. In its news columns the one side has been given and the other enlarged, distorted and suppressed. A 'free' Press?" Wβ feel it due to such papers as yours to place it on record that we have followed up this dairy controversy in every paper in New Zealand from the very start, we have consistently opposed the dangerous principle of "compulsion and supported voluntary co-operation, and we can say definitely that the Press of New Zealand has given an immense amount of space to correspondence in favour of "compulsion, and if such space could be estimated wo venture to say that there has been more taken up by "eompulsionists" than by their opponents. If comparisons are wished by the "Exporter/ , it would be interesting to know how much space it has given (if any) to the views of those opposed to its compulsionist policy? r X.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE.