Guard Standards In Guaranteed Price

Northern Advocate, 24 April 1944, Page 2

Guard Standards In Guaranteed Price

The need for the.dairy industry to keep close watch on those who sought, for one reason or another, to upset the standards in the guaranteed price,, was emphasised bv the chairman of the Dairy Board (-Jr. W. E. Hale),.in his address to the Northern Ward conference at Whangarei todav. Under the guaranteed price system, he said, the welfare of dairy farmers, and the whole reward of their efforts, depended on the standards fixed by the 1938 committee, and farmers should be Vigilant to see that these were preserved. It was unfortunate for everyone working in the industry to find that to-day. under the Land Sales Act, farmers wishing to sell were in many cases trying to capitalise false values into their land by attacking the standards, thus boosting up their selling prices. This was wonderful ammunition for those who were opposed to the guaranteed price standards, and cut clean across the solid efforts industry leaders had put in to see them maintained. Wherever they saw these standards being attacked in the way he had outlined, it was their job—in the interests of everyone, working in the industry—to combat the attempt to bring them into disrepxite.