DAIRY FARMERS’ THREAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 7

DAIRY FARMERS’ THREAT.

OPPOSITION TO ZONING. GISBORNE. June 5. The Executive Commission of Agriculture is expected *to visit Nuliaka soon, possibly next week, to meet suppliers of the Okitu Co-operative Dairy Company in regard to the zoning problem Zoning in the Wairoa and Nuliaka areas was to have eommeneed on Tuesday. hut cream is still being sent from Nu’iaka to Gisborne pending the visit of the Commission. , At a meeting of Nuliaka suppliers oF the Okitu factory, strong execution was taken to the action of the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W Lee Martin) in failing to make a written rep y to the petition presented on their behalf. The meeting requested that a petition should'he forwarded to the GovernorGeneral. Viscount Galway asking that the rights of minorities should be protCThose pretent too.k a stand in onnosition to zoning, and to the boundaries laid down by tdic Commission. ami maintained that, rather tefn diveit their supply, they would go on sustenance and allow the cows o ieai tboir calves. Thev nnsssd n motion t their cream would go "over the lul at all costs.”