DAIRY PRODUCE CONTROL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3494, 2 November 1926, Page 7

DAIRY PRODUCE CONTROL

(To the Editor.) Dear Sir, It is a pity that those papers and people who applaud the recent weakening of the Dairy Control Board are not prepared to put their principles into more general practice. Brought down to elementals, this struggle Is one between the producer, who wants all he can get from the business and the speculator who thrives on the rise and fall of the market, The difference between the old proposals a,s to market reserve and the new arrangements, is merely a concession to the speculator and is a direct win for the Anti-Control people. The board in appointing “agents.” (Its a pity the Board was not a little more diplomatic in its phraseology.) considered those firms which have been buying our butter for non-spcculative purposes. Had the decision of the Board been unjust, the time to kick was when that decision was made. Furthermore, the Board’s manager, Mr. Wright, demands information as to what is going to be done with any large quantities of butter bought. The speculative element of Tooloy Street wishes a place in the sun It does not kick against the Board's decision, it is merely endeavouring to upset them. One of their moves is to got rid of Mr Wright,—preferring any old Mr. Wrong Another is to capture the Board. It was to this latter end that the voting question was raised and the immediate result of the last election is a decision which allows Top ley Street as a whole, including the gamblers, to arrange the quotations. Taking the principle a little further —why not let all interested in newspaper advertising have a say in the price? Why not extend it to bread as well as butter, —to flour, sugar, mustard, iron, wire, coal, etc., etc,, Why not give the farmers and the whole general public a say in the rate of exchange, in insurance rates, and oven in rates of wages? Probably the gain would be immense, even if a few people did have to turn their hands to something more useful. Yours Etc. A.E.Robinson