MARKETING

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1937, Page 6

MARKETING

A POLICY QUESTION tPer Press Association—Copyright). WELLINGTONSeptember 21. The argument advanced by members of the Opposition that the Governjnent’s marketing policy .was merely a plan prepared By the New Zealand Dairy Board before the last election, with some amendments, was denied by the Minister for Marketing (the./Hon; W. Nash) when speaking m the Ad-dress-i 11-Reply debate in. the House of Representatives to-night. The Leader of the Opposition (the Hon Adam Hamilton) had stated that the Government had taken over someone else’s marketing procedure, Mr Nash said. All the credit for the newmarketing procedure which, he claimed, was entirely new, was due to the men in the department in New Zealand, and those at the London end. Mr Hamilton had said that the new marketing plan had been lying in the offices of the Dairy Board • but that was not so. “Why has it taken members of the Opposition about 15 months to sav that?” the Minister asked. “If that is true, yvhy did T discuss the whole position with the dairy conference? Why did w-e have negotiation after negotiation with the Dairy Board if it was simply some procedure already in our scheme that was advocated? The new procedure came before the House last year in the Primary Products Marketing Act.” The Minister cpioted statements made at the time of the introduction of the act. Mr Hamilton had stated recently, that the Government had adopted Mr Davis’ scheme, vefc last year he had stated in the House that Mr Davis condemned the scheme th.e Government was about to introduce. Another member of the Opposition bad criticised the scheme on the grounds that it would be “controlled by civil servants,” but civil servants bad been in charge for 12 months now. anti had made a magnificent job of it.”