DISTORTION ALLEGED

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 11

DISTORTION ALLEGED

Statement By Farmers’ Union President Dominion Special Service DANNEVIRKE, July 26. The following communication from the Dominion secretary of the Farmers’ Union has been received by the secretary of the Southern Hawke’s Bay provincial area of the Farmers’ Union:-— In view of the fact that the Dominion president’s statement in regard to the guaranteed price has been so distorted and misrepresented, I desire to place the facts before you. It should be noted: — (1) Mr. Mulholland replied to a statement by the Prime Minister that the Government would have to give serious consideration to ending the guaranteed price scheme. (2) The Dominion president stated: — (a) That he personally would welcome the return to the industry of the control of marketing. (to) That he assumed that if the Government did decide to hand back the control of the scheme to the industry it would also give the industry facilities for credit, mass marketing, etc., to carry on a similar scheme. (c) That if Mr. Savage decided to go ahead with the proposal to end the scheme he should call a conference of representatives of the industry in order that the position might be thoroughly discussed. It should be noted that the Dominion president made no attack on the guaranteed price scheme and the tenor of his statement was in the direction of suggesting that if the Government decided to make any alteration in the scheme a conference of all interested parties should be called as soon as possible.