MIRY INDUSTRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 244, 12 September 1935, Page 2

MIRY INDUSTRY

LACK OF CO-OPERATION

SIR FRANCIS FRAZER’S COMMENT.

“When I first became associated with the Royal Commission some eighteen months ago, I firmly believed that the dairy industry stood strongly for cooperation, but 1 have since been disabused of that opinion,” declared Sir Francis Frazer, deputy-chairman of the Executive Commission of Agriculture, during a discussion with Manawatu dairy factory delegates at a meeting held in Palmerston North yesterday. “I discovered that in all parts of New Zealand,” he added, “co-opera-tion ceased as soon as one got outside the walls of the factory. We were pleased, therefore, to find that, in the Wanganui district there was a genuine desire for real co-operation, and to obviate competition between one factory and another, often leading even to animosity. That spirit has manifested itself also in this district and it is to be hoped it will have a real fruition. It has been shown by the fact that you have asked for an economic survey, and also by the large attendance here to-day.” “We hear a lot about proprietary concerns, but it is the so-called cooperative ones which are the worry in our district,” commented Mr W. Gloyn (Rongotea) during a subsequent discussion.

Later in the meeting conflicting opinions were expressed as to whether the factories or the Dairy Board should bear the expense of the district survey for which the former had asked.

“There are enough big butter factories represented in this room to toot the bill without quibbling over it,” commented a delegate who protested at this attitude of expecting the Dairy Board to pay after the 6trong pleas made by various speakers for co-operation.

A voice: Yes, we ought to bo ashamed of ourselves.

“Weil, they aro used to it, anyway,” observed Mr J. Kyle, in referring to the Dairy Board.