MEAT CONTROL BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18625, 5 August 1922, Page 12

MEAT CONTROL BOARD

QUESTION OF COMPULSION Mr T. M. Wilford, Leader of the Opposition, asked the. Prime Minister in the House to-day if ho proposed this session to make the meat pool compulsory. Mr Massey said that was a question mainly for the Meat Control Board, and not the Government. A member of the board was now in England' making arrangements for tbs successful carrying on of the board’s lyisinesa, and he - was of opinion that no change would. b© made until that gentleman came back from England. Whatever changes were necessary could take place then. He was not at all certain that legislation was necessary to enforce compulsion. He had had no communication from the board on the subject. Mr Wilford: Abu gave it as your opinion that it would have to be compulsory. Mr Massey: Tes,_ I said so, and I do not go back on it in the very slightest. All; Wilford asked whether the Prime A'linister would have the law amended Li make compulsion mandatory. Air Massey repeated that he had no statement yet from the board, and did not expect one till their representative returns from. England .