DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

EESULT OF THE POLL. BIG MAJORITY FOR CONTROL.' (Peb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 19. The counting of the votes cast in file postal ballot taken to decide whether or not the Dairy Produce Export Control Act, passed last session, is to be put into force was completed as under:— For Act ... ... ... 22,284 Against ... 9,255 Majority for 13,029 FIRST CONTROL BOARD. THE RIGHT MEN WANTED, (From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, October 21. Referring to the success of the referendum on the_ Dairy Export Produce Control Act, Mr W. J. Poison (president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union) said at Hamilton on Friday that he was not surprised with the smallness of the poll, because dairy farmers generally were so confident that the proposal to enforce the Act would be carried that many of them did not bother to vote. The next step, said Mr Poison, was the selection of the best men available to form the first Control Board. It was hoped that business men who had been successful in the running of important enterprises would be selected where possible. He did not think the board would do anything very revolutionary. It would take a year or two to complete its organisation and to examine tile trade conditions overseas.