THE DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19497, 4 June 1925, Page 9

THE DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sin, —In to-day's issue you announce that the Otago Provincial Executive- of the .New Zealand Farmers’ Union, “recommends producers and all union members to support the candidature of Mr William .Bryant for a scat on the Control Beard.” Permit me to point out to those of your readers who happen to be dairy farmers, how utterly inconsistent the executive of the union shows itself to bo in thus advising the producers. Mr William Bryant is a straighlout supporter of the Control Board's policy of “absolute control” —a policy that deprives the dairv fanning community of a free market. So'lhe Farmers’ Union Executive, composed entirely of sheepowmera, graziers, and grain-growers, enjoying the fullest liberty to sell or export, their grain as suits them best, or to sell thier fat stock on the hoof, in paddock, or local market, or to freeze and sell off the hooks, or consign to London, which ever they think most pleasing or profitable, deliberately advises dairy farmers to support a candidate whose policy is to deprive the dairy farmer of that free market which the members of the Farmers’ Union Executive themselves now enjoy. Who could trust such advisors? Mr Win. Robertson is the president of the Middlcmaroh branch of the Farmers' Union, a working dairy farmer, and a straightout advocate of a free market as under the Meat Control Board's policy, and strongly opposed to stopping what is known as sales f.o.b. In the face of the fact that the members of the Farmers’ Union Executive now enjoy the privilege of selling f.o.b. all they produce—grain, _ meat, or wool—how grossly inconsistent is the advice tendered by this precious executive, and how worthy is it of contempt from dairy farmers. As dairy farmers we give place to no one in our desire to attain a- high standard of quality and production, and to perfect by co-operation, economic improvement in handling from farm to consumer. But we stop short, and oppose anyone or any policy that would deprive us of our inherent right to our own, or to the free disposal of the product of our labour, now enjoyed by every other section of the producers and of the community.-! am, etc., JUso ,, Middlemarch, June 2.