SHIPPING PRODUCE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 11

SHIPPING PRODUCE

DAIRY BOARD CRITICISM (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PAHIATUA, This Day. j The decision of the Dairy Board to undertake shipping work formerly done by the National Dairy Association at the ports of Auckland and New. Plymouth, and by the South Island Dairy Association for the whole of the South Island, was again referred to by Mr. J. G. Breehin at the annual meeting of the Pahiatua Co-operative Dairy Company. Mr. Breehin had' previously complained that the chairman of the Dairy Board (Mr. W. A. lorns) had vised his casting vote to give effect to the change declining the offer of the associations to carry on shipping pro'luee for £2000 per annum. Mr. Breehin said this decision meant over one thousand pounds per annum of dairy farmers' hard-earned money. Mr. Breehin replied to Mr. lorns's statement that he was justified in doing as he had done because of the reason he had discovered that the associations nad been previously charging too much for the work. Mr. Breehin said that every member of the board voted for the acceptance of the tenders of the two associations and' had expressed satisfaction with the work accomplished. If, said Mr. Breehin, the Dairy Board paid too much for the work in the past years, it was entirely the fault of the board members, including Mr. j lorns. It. was all the more necessary now for Mr. lorns to save the money of the dairy producers by accepting the offer of the associations to do the work, at a cost of over £1000 per annum less than the board itself could do it, Mr. Brechin stringently criticised the action of the chairman in this matter of shipping services, and held that the chairman's action had given the longsuffering dairy farmer one of the strongest possible reasons for working for the removal of the Act. The following resolution was carried unanimously: "This meeting of dairy farmers emphatically protests against the action of the chairman of the Dairy Produce Control Board, Mr. W. A. lorns, using his casting vote against the interests of the dairy farmers of the Dominion as a whole, and against the National Dairy Association representing the dairy farmers in the mat ter of refusing to accept the offer of the association to carry out the work of shipping dairy produce at' Auckland and New Plymouth for £1000 per annum and setting up offices in - those ports and also in the South Island to carry out the work at very much higher cost; that in the opinion of this meeting the removal from the board of all members who are not actual representatives of dairy farmers is in the best interests of. the dairy' industry, as the board should comprise only men selected, by those engaged in the industry which it is called upon to represent. ''