DAIRY EXPORT CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 132, 5 June 1923, Page 6

DAIRY EXPORT CONTROL

Support is promised by the Prime Minister to the Dairy Export Control Bill, held over*from last session, conditionally on there being a unanimous. desire for it. There would appear to be a substantial majority for the Bill, so far-as the recent many meetings held in all parts of the Dominion indicate; but there does not seem anything like perfect unanimity. With the Meat Pool before them as an established fact, the dairy farmers wanted something like it in their special interests. There certainly, was a feeling resembling unanimity last year, but opponents of the measure appear to have grown in numbers since.^the Bill was deferred. It,is coming up again, but it has been looked into very closely in the interim, and there seems to be a growing objection to its compulsory character and the dislocation of relations as between individual concerns and old-established houses with which business has been done for a great many years. It s^eems to be generally admitted by many dairy farmers that they are in a sort of frying-pan, but they hesitate to jump out of it into the fire—if there is a fire. The Prime Minister's position in regard to the Bill is far from enviable. He may please a very large section -of the dairy farmers if he succeeds in getting the Bill in its present form placed on the Statute Book, but in that event he is sure to offend a smaller section, a section that is not likely to submit quietly and without a struggle to provisions in the measure that its stoutest advocates insist must remain as they have been drafted.