COMPULSORY CONTROL OF DAIRY PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 104, 1 April 1926, Page 9

COMPULSORY CONTROL OF DAIRY PRODUCE.

(To tho Editor.)

Sir, —I noticed an article signed “N.Z. Welfare League’’ in 'your issue of March 26. It is obvious that this is another reflection from vested interests in the speculative side of the dairy produce trade. Your correspondent goes on to draw comparisons with American anti-trust legislation. It is very evident that in America the speculative element have attained a strong hold on the reins of Government and have niado good use of it for their own ends. If the A\ el-* fare League is correct it certainly displays ignorance when it draws comparisons with the dairy producers of New Zealand. In the first place the individual producer has long since lost the right to sell his produce through the formation of dairy companies. There is a lot made of compulsory control. Anyone who knows anything about dairy companies will know that, unless compulsory control was used by every co-operative dairy company, such dairy companies would soon be ruined by the many proprietary companies that are always ready to take any supplier they can get. The compulsory clause m co-opera-tive dairy companies has been the keynote to the success of the dairying industry m New Zealand. The Dairy Control Board is only anotner stop forward in co-operative dairying. It is the formation of a selling head, which should have been done 15 or 20 years ago. It has certainly cut the ground from under the feet oi the speculator who has profited by the disorganisation of the producers. The Welfare League also gives a comparison of the Meat Producers’ Board. This is another display of ignorance or wilful misstatements. The moat producer is able to sell his produce. It is not necessary for him to join a manufacturing company to produco his commodity. He simply grows his beef or mutton which he may send 100 or 200 miles to works, if necessary. The process of killing and freezing does not take away identity. Dairy produce is already pooled in the process of manufacture, therefore, it will be clearly seen that the Welfare League is not looking after the interests of the man who milks the cows, but the interests of the man who milks the man who milks the cows, namely, the speculator.—l am, etc., COW COCKY,