DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 8

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

WARD SYSTEM OF ELECTION

KAVOTJHED.

(tl TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

PALMERSTON N.,

This Day.

A largely attended meeting of representatives of co-operative dairy factories was held to-day and addressed by Mr. Stopford, Matamata, a former director of Sunny Vale Dairy Co., in regard to the Dairy Control Act and mode of election of a member to the board.

Mr. Nash, M.P., who presided, said he desired to make it perfectly clear that the meeting had not been summoned in opposition to the Dairy Control Board. It was proposed that a deputation should meet tho Premier and Minister of Agriculture at Wellington on 16th June on the subject. Mr. Ford voiced the advocacy of the ward, system of election as the only fair means of securing representation of the producers. He said that the proposed absolute control really was only, limited control, with exemptions to some large concerns, which would have a grave effect on the small co-operative concerns. Such a thing, he said,. was unconstitutional and impudent. He moved, a motion; which was carried, endorsing the ward system of election.

Mr. J. Marx, chairman o! the New Zealand Producers' Free Marketing League, also addressed the meeting, explaining that the league recently was formed in Taranaki, with the object of defeating absolute control. It intended to_ form branches throughout the Dominion.