DAIRY COMMISSION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1934, Page 3

DAIRY COMMISSION

SEARCHING CRITICISM BY MR GROUNDS

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

HAMILTON, 29th November

In an address at the opening of the conference of No. 2 Ward, Hamilton, to-day, Mr W. Grounds, a member of tlie Dairy Produce Board, who presided, levelled searching criticism at the Dairy Commission. "To-day the course of affairs in New Zealand is being conducted on the basis of an economics madhouse,” said Mr Grounds. "There was a time when professors and teachers of economics were respected as seekers after truth and formulas which act as a guide to better understanding of fundamental principles. Is industry likely to settle down complacently to the proposal that Dr. R. M. Campbell be sent to England to negotiate trade with the British Government ?” He added that he had no reflection to make against Dr. Campbell, who was a capable man of alert and intelligent mentality, but his scope for planning was taken from the wrong end, as expressed in pamphlets of which everyone knew he. was the author. The whole position was planned from the wrong end. llis planning was of paralysis and of slcrlisatioii of the ieprous type, proceeding from one member to another so that the body became so enfeebled that it could not resist the pressure of the movement.