PROPOSED DAIRY POOD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18116, 14 June 1922, Page 7

PROPOSED DAIRY POOD.

CASE FOR REJECTION* ANSWER TO CRITICISMS. [BY SKLBGEAPH.-HPBESS ABBOCIA3HW.3 '}.i CHBISTCHIIBCH. Tuesday. "The statement by Mr. Brash that th*. producers did not have an opportunity" of hearing the proposals properly explained is quite contrary to fact," states Mr. C. P. Agar, a member of the special committee appointed by the South Mand ; . Dairy Association to report on the pre*posed Dominion pool. " The factories were convened to a special meeting a* Dunedin, » meeting wag held, in f nver ' cargill, and a day wa» given to a discussion of the pool at Christchurch. Nothing new vras submitted after the first meeting. One would conclude from Mr., Brash's remarks that the report was not criticised by the North island delegation, whereas Mr. Goodfeikwr went through it immediately it was presented, clause.-by clause. The voting for submitting the whole thing hack to toe various directorates was not votisg done in accordance with instructions, as MrBrash infers. Yet this, was defeated by a two-to-one majority, and when the pool proposal was put to the meeting, there were only four votes in support of it. "To suggest insincerity in the No. & report of the special committee only tends to admit the annoyance of those who pro;. fess to know all about the pool scheme,-• and what the Tooley Street merchants will do regarding financing it. The committee, unlike the promoters of uuP o ™' had not been in touch with London merchants, except to get information as regarda the Danish system of marketing;, . COMPLAINT OF PBOMOTEES. NO CHANCE TO STATE THED2 CASE. [BS IJtLEGIUPH.— PHKS3 ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The attention of Mr. Brash having been drawn to a statement made by Mr. C. P. Aear, in Christchurch, he stated that after'all Mr. Agar's statement was Just so much camouflage. The fact remained that neither at the meeting at Dunedin nor at the meeting held at InvercargiH, to which Mr. Agar referred, were the promoters of the dairy pool given an fpf»tunity to attend, nor were they alio* *d to hold meetings in the different distamta in the South Island, although urgent 16quests were made for theai. The only meeting at which promoters of the proposed pool were allowed to give full information was the meeting in Christcburch to which, to use Mr. Agar's own words, four-fifths of the delegates attended with instructions to vote against the pool.