PRODUCERS STAMPEDED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1927, Page 6

PRODUCERS STAMPEDED.

VESTED INTEREST TACTICS.HAMILTON, Last Nigh:. Interviewed on the dairy posUicir to-day Mr. Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Co., said that once again vested interests opposed to control had resorted to hysterical denunciations of the Board in an endeavour to stampede the producers ot the country.

They undoubtedly had utterly as on all previous occasions when such attempts had made. unfortunately they succeeded in scaring- theGovernment which in this instance held the balance of power on tsw Control Eoard.

An examination of ,the ■ position; showed how bankrupt of any foundation this latest outburst of the vested' Interests was. The country had boontreated to a spectacle of glaring posters and newspaper headlines. Yet what was the peg on which all this sensation hung. It -wan merely the statement of "a prominent marketing authority." who. be it particularly noted, advisedly remained anonymous, to the effect that tho present butter position was a fiasco. The whole of this alleged trouble was laid at the door of the unfortunate Control 13oa,rd.

Tt must bo obvious to all sane producers thai the present condition Oi affairs in so far as that condition may be unsat'sfactory was solely due to the inefficiency of the non-control system under which our produce was held last year. "It is." continued Mr. Fulton, "unnecessary for me to traverse in detail the essential facts so ably set forth by Mr. in the two statements he made. But T recommend every producer in the Dominion to read every word of these statements and thoroughly digest them." Mr. Fulton emphasised that theControl Board had only been in operation in so far as actual control was concerned since September last. and. on the inception of its operations found itself faced with a huge accumulation of old .season's produce, the direct result of nnn-control conditions. Tt applied itself to overcoming- the hnndicap and Mr. Fulton felt sure it was only the obvious prospect, of itssuccosh that prompted the present outburst. V'-<-;<>d interests worn endeavouring- to (joe that the pnne'plo of co-operative marketing did no r . g"t a chance to be tried out. renlisin?. its success would be a severe blow to-thems^l'-es.

"Tf." added the speaker, "the recent

happenings served no other purpose they had at least shown the farmer hist exactly where he stood." FARMERS' UNION INDIGNANT. > AUCKLAND. March 16. Confidence in the original policy of the Dairy Control Board, and disappointment at the action of several of its members in not supporting tho chairman on the. question of pries fixing.' was expressed at a meeting of the executive of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. A motion expressing indignation at the attitude of the pres s was carried, and the fullest confidence was expressed in the chairman and the members who supported him in an'endeavour to give effect to th<* policy previously approved by the dairy farmers.