NOT VISIONARY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 8

NOT VISIONARY

Substantial benefits to primary producers attended the operation of tho l^eftt Producers' Board last year. By intelligent anticipation of market conditions and regulation of shipping accordingly, the Board was able to dispose of delivery of a record export without producing a glut. Progress was made also in opening up a market in North America, which bids fair to provide a useful outlet for spine of tho surplus output. A further achievement was fcjfe reduction of Londpn storage charges, .To obtain this tjjie Board found it necessary to go to fhe length pf purcjiasjng a cold storage s,ifce pf its own; but it prudently agcepted tho offer of a reduction instead o£*carrying its project to the concluding stages. In doing so it followed its established policy of rejecting the allurements of big business, Thjs pplicy may not always appeal tq the venturasoino who would wish to see tI)Q Board use to tho full tho wide powers given to it, branching out in shipment, storage, and even selling. I'ho results achieved demonstrate, we believe, tho prudence of the inoro conservative policy. Tho Board has not gambled for big gains. It has recognised that tho meatproducing industry is too big to bo

offered as a stake. Consequently it lias mado substantial gains not offset by losses. As the chairman stated yesterday, "the business of tho Board is not to carry out theories or visionary ideas, but to weigh every action with tho full realisation that the Board is a trustee representing every farmer .in tho Dominion." In pursuance of this policy tho Board has used established machinery for shipping and marketing, concentrating its attention upon oiling and adjusting that machinery so that it may work smoothly and economically. It has dono more than other organisations which attempted to seize the machine.