DAIRY BOARD SALARIES

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 29 May 1935, Page 8

DAIRY BOARD SALARIES

PROTEST BY FARMERS. CONSIDERATION OF REMITS. A protest against the action of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board in raising the salaries and travelling expenses of members was contained in a remit moved by the Auroa branch at the Farmers’ Union conference at Hawora. yesterday. The remit was passed •unanimously. Mr J. S. Tosland (Opunake) said that the members were sent as the representatives of the dairy industry. They were quite conscious that the industry was in the throes of a depression and that they should help to assist the farmers’ conditons. Despite this, the first thing they did was to further fleece those they represented by raising their own salaries. The members of the board should show rigid economy and take only sufficient to reimburse them. Mr Sheat -said that Government costs were being forced up before the country was out of the. depression. It was a perfect scandal Jiow public- positions were being created without their justification. The conference supported a remit that regulations be gazetted setting a definite standard of quality for all meals, and that, bags or containers bo clearly marked indicating the food value of the contents. The remit was moved by Mr W. E. Carter on behalf of Kn non era. and Afaneatoki branches

Two remits urging that summer time should be restricted from October to the end of March were passed. An Okaiawa- remit urging that farmers’ motor vehicles used exclusively for farm purposes should be exempted from ■ heavy traffic foes was supported. “That the Government be urged to amend the existing relief legislation to provide for all new mortgages executed since 1930 to come within tin* previsions of the Mortgagors and lonants Relief Act,” submitted by Auroa was lost.