RIGHT OF CONTROL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 17

RIGHT OF CONTROL

DAIRY INDUSTRY DEBATE. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 23. The -right of tlio dairy industry to control its own affairs was referred to by Mr'J. B. Hine in moving a remit on behalf of the Stratford Farmers’ Co-operative Association at the National Dairy Conference'at New Plymouth to-day. The remit asked the conference to affirm this right and to request the Government to legislate accordingly. Mr Hine said the debate that had already taken place on the tribunal proposal showed the necessity for the industry resuming control of its own affairs. The guaranteed price would have the effect of forcing the Government to do something it did not want to—give more than the London parity. Such action would have reactionary effects and force up the value of land. Mr G. Gibson, of Raliotu, seconded the remit. He said that iL their produce had been sold on the open market and brought the average price, farmers would have received more than the guaranteed price. “Tt is not a guaranteed price but a confiscatory price,” said Mr Gibson. “Why should we not have the right to sell our own goods—the right of every British subject?” Mr E. O. Bond, of Awahuri, said that if it -were suggested that the conference should ask the Government to abandon the guaranteed price, delegates might just as well save their time.

Several delegates suggested that the remit should be withdrawn because if it were lost it might be taken as an endorsement of the guaranteed principle.

However, Mr Hine said he wished to have a vote on the remit, which was lost on the voices. «