DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 12

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

CRITICISM FROM TARANAKI. SUGGESTED AMALGAMATION. FARMERS REJECT MOTION. [by te leg i! a nr.—own correspondent. ] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Members of the executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union were somewhat at variance to-day in (he attitudes they took up toward the Dairy Produce Control Board. A remit from South Taranaki spoke of "the inefficiency of the board calling for immediate attention," but after discussion the motion was lost.

The text of tho remit was "that the letter from Mr. lorns does not convince this executive that the Dairy Produce Control Board has justified its expenditure and it is considered that the inefficiency of the Control Board calls for immediato attention and that economics be brought about by some form of amalgamation to obviate the present overlapping of primary produce boards." Mr. E. J. Betts, for South Taranaki, said that his branch was of opinion that the board did not justify its expense. Mr. N. Campbell (Palmerston North) was against the motion. Ho pointed out that the Control Board had secured benefits for the industry in freight reductions, etc., that it had been unable to secure before the board's establishment.

Mr. H. E Blyde (Taranaki) said they were not out to dispense with the Produce Board, but considered that the same work could be done with less overhead expense and fewer members. Amalgamation with the Meat Board would enable the same work to be dono just as well. Mr. J. D. Hall (Christchurch) said he thought it would be very wrong to do anything which might jeopardise the legislation brought down at tho time of tho last slump. They had been very lucky to have such-protection at all and it might bo disastrous to have such a question roopened. Discussion ensued, at the end of which the remit was lost.