DAIRY BOARD DEFENDED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 10

DAIRY BOARD DEFENDED

Mr. H. T. Chapman, Little River, Canterbury, in an address at Kaikoura on Thursday, took the opportunity of defending the Dairy Board. Mr. Chapman said that he had had twenty-|five years' experience, and he had been a farmer all his life, and l:new the producers' and the commercial side of the business. The first year the levy made by the board amounted to £80,000, then it was reduced to half, and now >stood at £40,000. It had been asserted that the board was costing £20,000 a year for advertising, but he agreed that now was an opportune time for advertising while the price was low. A statement had been made regarding the accumulation of £108,000. That statement was not correct; the board had no accumulated fund, and would be fortunate to break even this year. Mr.. Chapman asked farmers to consider the question seriously—restriction or no restriction. If they considered restrictions were not right, then he asked that support be given him. In answering questions Mr. Chapman stated that the chairman of the board formerly received £750. but with the 30 per cent, cut this .had been reduced to £525. Members' honoraria had been reduced from £250 to £102.