"GOVERNNENT SCARED"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1927, Page 10

"GOVERNNENT SCARED"

SUPPORT FOR CONTROL

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

HAMILTON, 16th March.

Interviewed on the dairy position today, Mr. Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand, Co-operative Dairy Company, said that once again vested interests opposed to control had resorted to hysterical denunciations of the board in an endeavour to stampede the producers in the country. They undoubtedly had utterly failed, as on all previous occasions when such attempts had been made, but unfortunately they succeeded in scaring the Government, which in tliis instance held the balance of power on the Control Board.

An examination of the position showed how bankrupt of any foundation this latest outburst of vested interests was. The country had been treated to the spectacle of glaring posters and newspaper headlines, yet what was the peg on which all *'"s sensation hung? Merely a statement of a prominent marketing authority"— who, be it particularly noted, advisedly remained anonymous—to the effect that the present butter position was a fiasco The whole of this alleged trouble was laid at the door of the unfortunate Control Board. It must be obvious to all sane producers that the present condition of affairs, insofar as that condition may be unsatisfactory, was solely due to the inefficient noncontrol system under which our produce was held last year. "It is," continued Mr. Fulton, "unnecessary for me to traverse in detail the essential facts so ably set forth by Mr. Grounds m the two statements he made, but I recommend every producer in the Dominion tp read every word of these statements and thoroughly digest them." Mr. Fulton emphasised that the Control Board had only been in operation insofar as actual control ■ was concerned since September last, and at the inception of its operations it found itself faced with a huge accumulation of old season's produce the direct result of non-control conditions' It applied itself to overcoming this handicap, and Mr. Fulton felt sure it was only the obvious prospect of its success that prompted the present outburst. The vested interests were endeavouring to see that the principle of co-operative marketing did not get a chance to be tried out, realising that its success would be a severe blow to themselves. If, added the speaker, recent happenings served no other purpose, they had at least shown the farmer just exactly where he stood