TOO MANY BOARDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 134, 9 June 1933, Page 11

TOO MANY BOARDS.

BURDEN ON THE PRODUCER.

EXCHANGE INFLATION FALLACY,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. At the annual meeting of the Trustees, Executors and Agency Company, Mr. George R. Ritchie, chairman of directors, said: "The Government has seen fit to inflate exchange and no doubt the producer gains a little . thereby, although perhaps not as much as he imagines. The less Government interference in business the better for all concerned. The main tiling is to try to cffect economies by reducing unnecessary expenditure, and in this connection the producer pays heavily for numerous boards which the Government has seen fit to create in recent years. We have the Dairy Produce Board, the Wheat Board, the Meat Board, the Iruit Board, the Honey Board and other boards, s.rid I am inclined to think that a great deal of the work they do could be done just as effectively and at very much less cost in other ways. This one tiling is quite certain, that they are a somewhat heavy expense to the country and in one way or another it conies off the producers' revenue." Sir John Roberts, speaking at the same meeting, said they could look forward in the immediate future to having a distinct improvement in prices of wool, dairy produce and probably frozen, meat.