CABINET MEETS BOARD

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 April 1934, Page 4

CABINET MEETS BOARD

ASSISTANCE OF DAIRYMEN BOARD SUBMITS PROPOSALS GOVERNMENT PR OIMfSIvS CONSIDER ATI.ON NATURE OF iSUGGESTIONS UNREYEALED (By rT-erapt! —Prf.'S A..v«x"arlou.) WELLINGTON, April 13. Proposals framed by the New Zealand 'Dairy Produce 'Control Board for the assistance of dairy farmers were placed before the Government by members of the board yesterday. The submission of these recommendations and the discussion by board members and Cabinet occupied part of the morning and most of the afternoon. The board held an all-day meeting in Wellington on Thursday, and after another short .injecting yesterday morning went to Parliament House to confer with -Ministers. - ■

In an interview last evening, the Print? -{Minister' ' iRt. ' dloii. i G.' W. Forbes, stated tnat tne Dairy Board had waited upon Cabinet with certain suggestions, but he was not in* a position to disclose the nature of them. Quite a l'engthy discussion had taken place in connection with these proposals, and on behalf of the Government he had given an undertaking that they would receive the consideration of Cabinet and that a reply would be sent to the board. Mr Foribcs mentioned that in addition to the Dairy Board’s proposals, the Government had several recommendations to consider from the conference held last month -of those connected with the dairying industry. No decision of any sort had yet been reached. “Now that we have the recommendations of the board and the conference,’.’ -said iMr Forbes, we have all the recommendation's from the industry and can go ahead and consider the whole question.”

When invited to comment on a report that the Government was of opinion the industry would he better served by a small commission of m?n with business experience taking the place of the board, or at least acting in a consultative capacity to the hoard Mr Porbes said no such proposal had been considered by the Government. At the conference that had taken place that day between the board and Cabinet, the chairman of itine Dairy Board, Mr W. A. 'lorns, had stated he had been approached anu asked whether any such action was contemplated; but no suggestion on the lines mentioned had been before Cabinet.