DAIRY PRODUCE QUOTA

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 10

DAIRY PRODUCE QUOTA

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The recent action of Canada in impounding our butter, and the generally exclusive .attitude of both sister Domidions and of foreign countries towards the importation of our butter and cheese, indicate what our fate will be when Great Britain takes similar steps and imposes the quota. In view of our own treatment of-.1 produce from other icountries: and because;;of'; the -plight'jofsßritish: farmers, New.; Zealand h,as, no moral: or: legal right to_ complain;:of .the altitude of the British Minister: of Agriculture towards New-Zea-land;'produce.y : : Butiftlre danger of the quota can be avoided,; every effort must be made by this Dominion ;to dp so. Yet there is evident a defeatist element even among men in authority, and ; a ;'- too "general 'acceptance of present-prices and future restrictions as inevitable. They are not! ■ ■ ; The imposition of the quota will'mean the-cessatioh of all future land Settlement or subdivision of country for. dairying and all progressive productive methods. It will mean the devaluation of all dairying' land and of all-dairy stock." : To accept the quota and-present prices wilL;meanKtheicessation_ of payment of interest on,mortgages to banks and-mer-entHe; concerns, of income and- land: tax, andc6unty ; <rates. WhatiwiUJ'the Government ?6ayV'to such a posjtion? '3' ■ ;:The';G,bvernment and the Dairy Board are -the'i trustees for this great' business. Three •yeara,;have. elapsed since "the con"fefeheefeatito discuss the, position of the : man;toni ; the' land. ' Except for r various necesearyv enactments, :such ■'. asXthe:-Mort-gagbry; -Protection Act.yadjustment. of interest; viiid' raising V.of^^the w.liich," while'temporarily saving "the overburdened farmer, have had unfortunate repercussions on the whole community, nothing has been done to strike at the root of the trouble, the price received by the farmer for his milk or butterfat. The remedies are obvious; who will apply them? —I am, etc., . -■■'■'."' CHARLES G: BLOORE. Island Bay, February 26, 1934'