DAIRY CONTROL.

Grey River Argus, 15 June 1927, Page 5

DAIRY CONTROL.

ELECTION EVE. Mr Patterson’s Spoke. (Per Press Assn.) WELLINGTON, June 14. In n lengthy letter to Mr Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Produce Control Board, Messrs Morison, Smith, and Morison, solicitors for Mr Strongach Paterson, the late Government representative on the Board’s London Agency, call attention to the fact that Mr Paterson had noted various New Zealand newspapers, including tin 1 Dairy Produce Exporter of March 26th last, giving what purported to be Mr Grounds’s version of Mr Paterson’s actions in the capacity of Government Representative. Mr Paterson was unable to reply at onee, by reason of Ins distance from New Zealand, and to do so now would be futile. Therefore lie ■did not consider it desirable at this stage to enter into a discussion on the merits or demerits of the price iixiition of dairy produce in London —an issue which he says has already been settled ret the expense ot tlio New Zealand iarmors—but Mr Paterson desires to repudiate what he regards as a gross misrepresentation by Mr Grounds of

his (Paterson’s) actions as Government Representative on the London Agency. Therefore he would welcome an opportunity to have bis actions fully investigated before a Koval Commission, or any other appropriate tribunal. Mr Paterson says he further considers that Mr Grounds, in Ins attacks on him (Paterson), referred to conversations which -Mr Paterson understood were confidential, and, further, that Mr Grounds’s attack contained emnrilete mis tat.-meats of fact, distorting general aim and effect of his (Pater",n’s) work. Mr Paterson expects to return to New Zealand in October, when he would 1.0 ready to participate in a public, investigation into lim "«" : “" tions, ami what he terms the Board s disastrous policy.