DAIRY CONTROL

Evening Star, Issue 19276, 15 June 1926, Page 4

DAIRY CONTROL

FACTORY OBJECTIONS **AGAINST COMPULSION” VOTE GROWING [Per United Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. To-day a deputation representing the Canterbury Butter Factories’ Association waited on the Canterbury members of Parliament to put before them the objections of the association to the Hairy Import Control Bill. Mr C. P. Agar, who led the deputation, said that those present represented all the Canterbury' butter factories except two small ones, and they were all agreed on the points under discussion. The first question they wished to put before the committee was that the association objected to the present voting over largo areas, and favored the ward system. The present areas were so large that people could not possibly know whom to vote for as their representative on the Board of Control. The association favored six divisions in the North Island and three in the South. Then everyone would exercise an intelligent vote. What was right in principle in Parliament should be right in dairy control. An overwheming majority favored the “ one man one vote.” The dairy industry on the whole favored a tonnage basis. The association opposed companion, because it did not admit the right of any one organisation to take control of the property of others. On the Control Board at present only one man had had actual experience in the industry. Mr Agar said ho understood that Air W. A. Yeitch was introducing _ a Bill into Parliament this session asking the Government to refrain from controlling the dairy produce. To Air H. S. S. Kyle, Air Agar said that the two companies that were not represented had not made the whole of their views known. Air H. T. Armstrong; Yon do not suggest that a dairy company should go in nr out of the dairy pool as it Fished? , , . Air Agar: Let those who desire to pool do so ,and those who desire to stay out stay out. We have connections at Home of thirty-eight years’ standing. With control all individual brands will he thrown overboard, and We shall all be on the same level. Air Agar continued that the ‘‘ against compulsion ” vote was growing. Mr D. Jones asked Air Agar if he would give figures to show whether New Zealand butter had suffered during the last year. Mr Aj?ar replied that he could give confidential figures from London which had guided his business. Prices had suffered because of the power of the buyers at Home.