DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19016, 12 November 1923, Page 10

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

THE DATE OF ELECTION. PROTEST AGAINST HASTE. (Per United Press Association.) TE AWAMUTU November 10. The dominion president of the Dairv Farmers’ Union (Mr C. Parker) has urged the Minister of vAgricultiire (the Hon. \V. Nosworthy) not to rush the election of the Dairy Control Board on tFic grounds that trie time allowed is totally insufficient. Mr Parker contends that time should be allowed for conferences of bona fide dairv fanners to lie held in every province to select and nominate candidates, instead of a comparatively small meeting at Wellington for the selection of a “ticket” for the whole island. He contends, on behalf of the union, that dairy farmers should have been — and still should be—consulted before the ticker is adopted, and that the Minister, by haste, is depriving the producers of their democratic rigiits. Though candidates other than those announced on the “ticket” may ho nominated, the time is too short for communication between candidates and voters to enable the latter to know the qualifications of the candidates. Mr Parker refutes the statement frequently published that the Dairy Union endorses the candidature announced on the. “ticket.” “This is not so.” ho said. “The union will only endorse the candidature of men nominated by the Producers themselves, and combined in a ticket representative of all provinces.” Mr Parker adds that he doe-s not know any executive officer of the union who will consent to nomination. The union’s objection to the present, ticket, he states, is not its personnel, but its method of nomination. He claims that the Minister, by rushing the election/ denies the farmers the right to select candidates, thus defeating democratic principles.