DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19012, 7 November 1923, Page 3

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l have carefully read in your issue of this date the letters written by Mr T. R. Eades, of Edendale, and Mr A. Brown, of Mosgiel. Evidently carefulness is not one of Mr Eades’s outstanding qualities. I did not write that the North Island representatives “selected” the South Island “ticket.” 1 wrote that our representatives must have impressed the men of the more progressive North very favourably. I accept Mr Eades’s statement that the South Island delegates selected their own candidate. Why was it necessary to travel to Wellington to do that? It, is difficult to check that drift to the north. Mr-Grounds, chairman of the National Dairy Council, says; “What we (the Dairy Council) asked the districts to do was to select nominees.” Mr Eades has the honur to be a member of the Dominion Dairy Council. VI ill he tell us why the districts of the South Island were not asked to select nominees? Mr Grounds says also, “All the names of possible candidates were put up.” Will Mr Eades favour ns with the names of the possible candidates put up for the South Island, or are we to unoerstand that in the whole island there were only three “possibles, ’’ and they all met in Wellington? It is pleasant to hoar that the Dairy Farmers’ Union (which is almost entirely a North Island organisation) is entirely satisfied with the three South Island candidates. It is more important, however, that the dairymen of the South Island should be entirely satisfied. The Dairy Control Act has now become pint of the law of the land and is not the question at issue. But there seems to be in the loiters of Mesrs Fades and Brown a desire to create in the minds of the dairymen the impression that the objection to the method adopted by the meeting in Wellington to nominate candidates comes from those who opposed the Dairy Control Rill. Indeed. Mr Brown is candid enough to slate that it is known that T am opposed to control by producers. As Mr Brown is unknown to me and I to him. I must take it that his information came from an in (crested third party. The information is absolutely incorrect. I supported both the Meat Control Bill and the Dairy Control Bill, although I would have desired the dairymen to have more closely followed the lead of (he meat men. Further, I am a shareholder in the Otago Farpiers’ Co-opera-tive Association, the Waikouaiti Co-opera-tive Dairy Factory, and the Waikouaiti Cooperative Stores as well as the Otago Co-operative Dairv Company, and I would not object to selling a few of the shares In Mr Brown. We certainly believe that the merchants of New Zealand do not fear the Dairy Control Act. and wo intend to gain and retain their confidence by electing to the Dairy Control Board men of known ability and honour. But we challenge the right to use the organisation and the money of the Farmers’ Union to forward the interest of any particular candidate until such time as the members have been given an opportunity to discuss the matter fully. —I am, etc., John Macaui,at. Flag Swamp. November 6.