MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2076, 17 March 1922, Page 5

MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD

MINISTERIAL VOLTE FACE. ■g MR W. D. HUNT APPOINTED. \ /(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Minister of Agriculture (Mi W. Nosworthy) informed a pressmai that Mr W. D. Hunt had been recommended for appointment to the Mea Producers’ Control Board. The Minister said. “I have been going very carefully into the matter of the appointment of a representative of tin stock and station agents on the Me«b Producers' Control Board, and in this connection I ]ia"z had some discusLe sioa with Mr W. D. Hunt, who w*n nominated for the position, and I an I very glad to state that those inter- " views have been of a very satisfactory nature. It has -been decided t< 7 recommend his appointment to His Excellency the Governor-General. Tin _ matter of the personnel of the Board was of the greatest importance to the d producers, requiring thorough consideration from every point of view bo;e fore a decision was arrived at, cspecially having regard to the matter oi the opposition which the proposals 3' met with in their earlier stages. ] ie feel sure that Mr Hunt will do his best to assist in making the Board’s W operations a success.” 5 Mr Hunt made the following statei- ment: —“The hesitation of the Gov eminent in appointing me as the re)r presentative of th.e stock and slatior 1! agents on on the Meat Export Coni' Irol Board was, I understand, caused by the fact that 1 had opposed tlu scheme at the outset. it is quit' true that, in common with the greai majority of flic stock and statioi agents, I did oppose the scheme. 1 . did this because I, as well as mosl ’• of the otlier stock agents, have £i great fear of the blighting effect oi Government interference with trade My opposition was, perhaps, made r (■ little more prominent than that ol • most of the other stock agents, bed cause I was one of the spokosmer in the interview that the agents had 1 • with Mr Massey and Mr Nosxvorthx “ on the subject, and also in subsequeni 5 interviews with the Meat Pool ComL " mittoc. In saying what I did, ] c merely expressed the views of tlu • v great majority of the stock agents or the subject. Now that the Meat Ex- , port Control Act has become part ol • the law of the Dominion, it is. I think lf the duty of everyone connected will cl the meat industry of the country tc f- work in with it and lo do his heal I to make it a success. In accepting >' a position on the Board, I intend t( c do my best lo make the activities ol 6 the Board the greatest possible benes tit to the moat producers of the Dod minion, and in this detorminat on I r think 1 shall be supported by practic- / ally all the stock and station agents s In this connection, should like tc .t point out that Dm interests of tlu • stock and station concerns and tlu - producers are identical. They arc s bound together in partnership in the n funning industry of this country. The a stock and station concerns do not s make money out of the farmers. The\ c make, money with the farmers, anil e lose it xvitii the farmers. Prosperitx >• for the- farmers brings xvith it pros'. I. pciity to the stock and station conn * cerns, and the losses made bv the o tanners arc alxx-Jys shared by those e iu the stock and station business.”