Gratitude Or Suspicion?
What would provide the difference between the market price of butter and the actual payout to dairy companies, and on what basis the final payment was arrived at, were questions put to Mr F. Elliott, chairman of. directors of the Hikurangi Co-op. Dairy Company, Ltd., at the company’s annual meeting yesterday, by a supplier in the audience. “Perhaps you had better refer these questions to the Hon. Walter Nash,”
replied Mr Elliott. “When the guaranteed price scheme was first evolved, the idea was to put the surplus in any one year to the credit of future years. This year Mr Nash is departing from this plan, and is giving us another Jd per lb.” Voices: Politics! Vote-catching! A supplier: Mr Chairman, you should put your foot down on politics in this meeting. We have enough of that outside. Mr Elliott: You come here only once a year. I think you should have a certain amount of liberty while you are here.
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Northern Advocate, 8 July 1938, Page 8
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