DAIRY BOARD'S MISTAKE
" RUSHING THE FENCES."
OUTCRY AGAINST PREMIER. " ENTIRELY UNWARRANTED." [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] FEILDING, Monday. It was inevitable that the question of dairy control should be raised at the public meeting addressed to-night by the Minister of Finance, Hon. W. Downie Stewart. When tho first questioner asked: What is your opinion on dairy control, the Minister said he thought the Control Board made a mistake in trying to do in one year what, if it had been feasible to do at all, should have taken five or ten years to do. (Hear, hear.) The board should have gradually cleared the way instead of rushing the fences as it seemed it did.
The outcry that was being raised against the Prime Minister seemed to be entirely unwarranted, Mr. Stewart added. Control and pooling schemes seamed to have been successful if they exercised themselves on improving grading, expediting transport, finding new markets and regularising supplies. Attempts to fix prices had not met with success. The opposition in England, he had concluded, was not from vested and moneyed interests in Tooley Street, but from the actual consumers. f
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19632, 10 May 1927, Page 8
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186DAIRY BOARD'S MISTAKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19632, 10 May 1927, Page 8
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