DAIRY CONTROL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19209, 24 December 1925, Page 9

DAIRY CONTROL.

Sir,—The Minister- for Isteraal Afafes is be&rtilv to be congratulated for ixis horiest aid straight forward reference- ta control in a recent speech at Tastksn. Mr. Bollard is not a political shaißer., *"d , xE is refreshing to know that m mm the producers have a champjos courageoss enoogb to express his opinions _on this very important question at. Ibis juncture. Seeing' that the attempt to feai® legistatios pushed through Parliament during the riming hours ~of last session to have the basis of election altered to the ward system was frustrated we may expect renewed and almost ■ frenzied aetiVity os tee part of control oppositionists to have this innocent-looking Ward system again presented as soon as Psriiaiaent meets.. . The ward system at first sight appears excellent, fact under its democratic teaser there lurks » weapon which amid be ruthlessly employed to slaughter' the very purposes for which control stands. An analysis • of the Tofciaf position has re-. ceatly been, published and sSords interesting reading, Xo wonder the opponents of control so anxiously demand the ward system. Bat the truth is set.. And while all this commotion exists the overworked and highly-puzzled prodnqgr is expected to sit up Eke a good child', and take his medicine. Bat,, like all others, he has inherited his share of saspkroa, so he rubs his eyes and ponders. Why all the hiss, he asks I Sorely it mast have a deep-set meaning and a still deeper significance. He miy be dabbed a rustic and kindred appellations, bet he. is not a fool. Now he understands. He knows on which side his bread is fettered, and when all is said and done, that is what will finally settle this question and determine whether we shall continue tha present obsolete* method of individual bargaining long since cast open the scrapheap of antiquity, gr whether we shall adopt the modem and up-to-date method of, collective bargaining in order to fee better able to cope with., - those who use that method in dealing with as. W Bern. Matangi.