DAIRY CONTROL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12075, 28 February 1925, Page 4

DAIRY CONTROL

■The Dairy Board of Control has developed a taste for a battle of tactics. In its policy of complete control over the whole interest, it found itself faced 'with an army of legal arguments strongly entrenched. There were auxiliaries in support of many sorts, but the main obstructive strength was legal. ' The board after, no doubt, a very careful reconnaissance, has opened a combined movement of assault. It has attacked the enemy’s front with a post-dated resolution of absolute control, and is passing round the flank with a partial control movement, apparently supported by an Order-in-Council for the enforcing of the board’s terms. Whether the postponement of the functioning date will meet the objection that the board has no power to delegate sufficiently until that body has put its business on the road it means it to travel by, involves a point' of law which we do not feel competent to pronounce upon. We can only say that the plan for taking a full control which is not a full control to-day, but will be the day after to-morrow, ingeniously favours a policy for to-morrow. We shall not be surprised if the rashness turns out to be equal in degree to the ingenuity. The main thing, however, to realise is that the hoard has determined to adopt a policy of absolute control, with functioning date postponed, but, nevertheless control absolute and complete.