RUTTER RESTRICTION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1933, Page 2

RUTTER RESTRICTION

MR I’ULTOX’S STATEMENT. REPLY TO MR COATES. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, May 8. ' Replying to Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates’s statement regarding the butter restrictions, Mr Dynes Fulton, actingchairman of the Dairy Board, stated in an interview that it came as a great shock as lie ha<( indicated to Mr Coates at a recent conference with him that the question was finished in view of the Ottawa Agreement. The industry had rejected the restrictions and so had Australia. Notwithstanding this fact, they would not be affected to the same extent as New Zealand. They opposed it on < principle. In view of the decision reached and the fact that butter had risen to 80s per cwt one wondered why Mr Coates had made a statement at this particular time. Mr Coates was fully conversant with the position and one would have expected that he would have made a statement before the delegation left for Australia.

Mr Fulton contended that the publication of Mr Coates’s statement might be the means of further agitation by those favouring restrictions. He felt confident that the producers would just as strenuously resent interference by the Government in the industry. It was obvious that they knew nothing about Mr Coates’s scathing comments on cheese quality, but the Government could have given greater assistance to the industry. Tf Mr Coates could forecast future restrictions, why was he proceeding with the Small Farm Scheme and the policy of generally increasing production? Mr Fulton was optimistic enough to feel that, after the World Conference was over and a world ’ adjustment of finance takes .place, improvements can bo expected.