DAIRY EXPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 5

DAIRY EXPORTS

THE CONTROL BOARD

IJNION'S DISSATISFIED VCTION.

In connection with the Dairy Export Control Board, a discussion t00k... place »t a special meeting of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Dairy Farmers' Union, held »in Palmerston North yesterday morning. Mr. C. Parker, Dominion President, was in the chair. . f The chairman gave an outline of the proceedings at the conference between the Dairy Control Committee and representatives of the Farmers' Union and the Dairy Farmers' Union, held in Wellington on Wednesday. He said that the Dairy Farmers' Union had been denied the right to elect two of its members to the board. As a result on the selected ticket there was a lack of representation for the dairy industry, in spite of the fact that the union had been foremost in securing the Act. Mr. R. Cobbe, who also reported, said he did not think the conference in Wellington had been altogether fair and square. ' It wag a serious matter that they were expected to go back to the Meat Board system of election, doing away with the straight-out system of voting. He strongly objected to placing sixteen millions' worth of produce in the hands of the men selected. It was then moved by Mr. B. Roberts (Wairarapa): "That this union reluctantly decides to nominate members for the Dairy Control Board, as it feels that certain members of the council's ticket are not truly representative of the dairy industry." Exception was taken to the report that the Dairy Farmers' Union supported the ticket chosen. After being denied the right to elect two nominees they had not taken any part in the selection, and had not pledged themselves to support the ticket chosen. Mr. P. J. Small .(Manawatu) said no tody had done as much to secure the Act, and as producers they should be' represented. As it was, they had "got it in the neck." .Other members expressed the opinion that men who had fought hard againstUhe Bill should not be on the board. No member of the Meat Board should be a member of the Dairy Board. Men were wanted who had the' knowledge and the ability, and who were sympathetic to the cause. The motion yas then carried unanimously. ■ Messrs. Williams and Grace were elected to form a policy to place before subunions before they proceed to nominations.