DAIRY CONTROL.

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3576, 6 April 1927, Page 11

DAIRY CONTROL.

THROUGH LABOUR EYES. WANGANUI, Monday. ' "The Tooley Street merchants frightened Mr. Coates. They pnt him in a panic, and at the first shot he hauled down his flag • and ran away." In these words at the Opera House last night Mr. Peter Fraser M.P., summed up hig opinion of the action of the Prime Minister in regard to dairy control. The Dairy Control Bill was proposed to eliminate the gambling element from the marketing of Dominion commodities, said tiro speaker. Reports showed that gamblng went on regularly every year in New Zealand products and the Bill was "an effort to stabilise prices. "The Board was elected and Mr. Stronach Paterson, of A.S. 1 Paterson and Co., was put in charge of affairs in England, continued Mr.- Fraser. "The Government could * have ' £ut a New Zealand man in charge, but they preferred to pay Mr. Paterson £IOOO a year. Mr, Paterson was paid to frustrate the purposes of the Bill, and he succeeded. Tooley- Street commenced a boycott, and you will notice that the papers did not denounce these merchants. If it hud been the watersiderg down on the wharf every paper in New Zealand would have denounced them. I suppose it is different when wealthy people are concerned. If we had a Labour Government in England and a Labour Government here, Tooley Street would not have lasted five minutes. I do not want anyone ttf go away from here and say "That’s all talk—it couldn’t be done.” If has been done. It was done during the war and it saved the people ol Britain from starvation.” The speaker advocates a policy of bulk purchase and stabilising of prices for a number of years. The present problem of unemployment in the summer months Mr. Fraser hold to be directly duo to the to the Government’s policy of linml-l gration and mis-representatlon in England of Now Zealand conditions. During five years 36,000 persons had been brought to New Zealand to work on the land, and yet for the year ending March 31, 1926, there, were 6000 fewer people-working?' on the land.