Reply Made To Objection

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 3

Reply Made To Objection

(Sew Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 3. The majority of New Zealand exporters were behind the Meat Board’s diversification plan, the chairman (Sir John Ormond) said at today’s meeting.

He was replying to 1 comments from Mr 1 Alan Hellaby, manag-ing-director of R. and W. Hellaby, Ltd., who said that the idea, with its penalty proposal, could destroy overnight all the efforts that had been made to establish profitable lamb markets outside Britain and the United States. “The biggest exporter in the country is sympathetic towards the board’s plan—and the majority support us,” said Sir John Ormond. He said that the exporter who had levelled the criticism was small, insignificant in the development of markets. Sir John Ormond suggested that if the critic was looking fori “fodder” he should look at what he held a licence for —he was an exporter. Sir John Ormond said this exporter was another who used the “stupid" word penalty. He remarked that he himself had never used this word i 9 his 12-months’ discussions for the formulation of the plan _T\Ve talk about incentives. We talk about people who

hold licences and who are privileged to trade—and that is how they should take it,” Sir John Ormond said.