SHIPMENT OF PRODUCE

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 19 September 1930, Page 8

SHIPMENT OF PRODUCE

: , A#. ANOMALOUS POBITION. "- "■■:;'' " i'r r ' '"l'^'f'f-'■■'.■. 1 V X : : .'■'... >. v ' (BfIMS (ASSbciATIOS ; Wellington, septetaiber is.' In the House-of Representatives to- j day. Mr J.. T. Hogan (£nd., Rangitikei) asked the , Minister for Agriculture if he was a-watf ing dair^Bjodnce^fii'thia;;Old,Country . at tbrd*^," a«4 that 'while 1525 boxes at bqtter. and -869 crates of cheese were being offered for shipment, the shipping cqppany,concerned. .ref^d'''tb;-I^4j^':t)oxes. : ($0 crates of.cheese-irom : certain dairy companies because* it wins stated, of basing .; precluded Strop doing,- so by t' e; agreement, between -the. '.l?airy Control Board and ..tye .Ove*seaf!pipping* Cvms&UlJl, and that \the [Ytrjamft.;p,4S r iUees6 Irefn«ed: l>y the cempaay'-isi; Winganuf. must be shipped to Wellington by -a coastal vessel at the cost of ;t,he dairy companies, to bo loaded on to an oversoas ship, probably, the lonic. He asked. whether the Minister approved of the drastic'■centralisation policy ibf. ■'■- the Board think it wise. to alloy this Board, power to destroy -the smaller jports which had cost hundreds of thousands ol .;ponnds, and to penalise many dairy companies to the extent of thousands of poundß :for.; th? sake,of a paltry reduction in freights-between New Zealand and the, -Old"'Country!-.j;- •'•■ '■'*-' ■ '_,- ■ The Hon. X* J. Murdoch said that the question was-'-really a matter more for the .-Dairy .Board than- for the MinThe Board was set up by Parliament ahd had power to effect such an agreement, and therefore the' matter did; not come-within the-; scope of the Minister. , He said he had diseussed the matter with the chairman of .the Board and the (chairman stated that, it was. not the 'Board which was responsible but the shipping company, which insisted :on the conditiortsnn' the contract, one of which was that Wanganui should not be a .port..of.> loading..lt was an anomalous position seeing that tile ship Was. in the roadstead and had accepted meat and:a certain quantity of butter and, .at the -same; time, had refused to accejat the balance' of the; butter. Mr Murdoch* said he intended to have an interview with the Representative of- the shipping' company. to see if this ridiculous anomaly could be-rectified,

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