DAIRY BOARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 239, 6 September 1928, Page 6

DAIRY BOARD.

COST OF SHIPPING WORK. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. Upon his attention being drawn to a statement at Pahiatua by Mr J. &• Brechin, a of the National Dairy Association, "Mr W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Board, has made the following statement; ‘ln July, 1927, the dairy associations asked from the Dairy Board a sum of £4300 for attending to shipping details at Auckland, New Plymouth and South Island ports. Under pressure, they finally agreed to do the lyork for £3500. On July il, 1928, they quoted £3500 for attending to the worl* for another 12 months. Tho board decided to defer its decision for one month and during that month the dairy associations became aware that a section of the board favoured the board doing its own shipping work. As a result, and quite obviously in a desperate attempt to retain the work themselves, the associations submitted an amended quotation, reducing their price from £3500, which they had submitted the previous month, to £2OOO, a reduction of over 40 per cent. The estimate of the cost of the board’s own officers for attending to shipping work is less than was being paid to tho dairy associations and less than the quotation received from them until such time as they considered they were in danger of losing the work. Further the decision reached lemoves the board from tho danger of being overcharged as has been tho caso in the past.”