DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 125, 23 November 1926, Page 12

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

FULL CONFIDENCE IN MR. WRIGHT

CABLE FROM LONDON DEALERS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAMILTON, 22nd November. A cablegram has been received as under by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company from five leading importers in London, who will be concerned in handling the great bulk of the New Zealand dairy output under control conditions, and who will come into intimate contact with Mr. J. a. Wright, London manager, appointed by the Control Board:— ""The undersigned are informed that some members of the board have cabled you that all importers, with the exception of Lovells and Christmas and Wilson Sears, show keen hostility to Mr. Wright's management. If so, this statement is not in accord with the facts. Wilson Sears and Lovells aro the only allottees who are not members of the New Zealand Importers' Association, but no resolution of that association has expressed dissatisfaction with Mr. Wright's management. Certainly the undersigned, having had some years' experience of Mr. Wright's capabilities have full confidence in him. (Signed) Devidson, Gillanders, Lane, Lovells, Mills." In an interview in reference to the message, Mr. D. Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, said that the cablegram demonstrated beyond all doubt the extreme length to which interests opposed to control would go to misrepresent the position in London. Within the past few weeks a very strongly-worded cablegram from the Government nominee, in London, Mr. S. Paterson, was "disclosed" by Mr. Timpany, in which Mr. Wright's management was condemned, and which sfated that importers handling New Zealand produce had no confidence in him. Such a message, added Mr. Fulton, would be sent, 0110 would imagine, only on the clearest possible evidence that what was stated was a fact. The present cablegram, however, placed beyond doubt that what was contained in the earlier one was not a fact.