DAIRY CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 188, 7 May 1931, Page 6

DAIRY CONTROL

Working of Board

FARMERS’ ATTITUDE

Members of the executive of the New Zealand Farmers’.Union were somewhat at variance yesterday in the attitudes they took up toward the Dairy Produce Control Board. A remit from South Taranaki spoke of “the inefficiency of the board calling for immediate attention,” but after discussion the motion was lost. The text of the remit was: —

That the letter from Mr. lorns does not convince this executive that the Dairy Produce Control Board has justified its expenditure, and it is considered that the inefficiency of the Control Board calls for immediate attention. and that economies be bro' ght about by some form of amalgamation to obviate the present overlapping of primary produce boards.

Air. E. J. Betts, for South Taranaki, said that his branch was of the opinion ■ that the board did not justify the expense. He did not wish to waste the time of the meeting in pursuing the matter further.

Mr. N. Campbell (Palmerston North) was against the motion. He pointed out that the Control Board had secured benefits for the industry—reduction in freight and so on—that the industry had been unable to secure before the board’s establishment.

Mr. H. E. Blyde (Taranaki) said they were not out to dispense with the produce board, but considered that the same work could be done with less overhead expense and fewer members. Amalgamation with the Meat Board would enable the same work to be done just as well.

Mr. J. D. Hall (Christchurch) thought it would be very wrong to do anything which might jeopardise the legislation brought down at the time of the last slump. They had been very lucky to have such protection at all, and it might he disastrous to have such a question reopened. I Discussion ensned, at the end of which the remit was lost. J