DAIRY CONTROL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19791, 17 May 1926, Page 11

DAIRY CONTROL.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER’S OPINION. MS BRUCE DEPOSED TO COMPULSION. (From Our Own . Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, May 15. In the course of an interview on his return from a holiday visit to Australia, the President of the Associated Chambers of Cora merer, Mr A. H Mackrell, of Invercargill, expressed the opinion that the political situation seemed to be fairly secure so far as the Commonwealth Parliament was concerned. During his visit Mr Mackrell had an interview with the Prime Minister of Australia (the Right Hon. S. M. Bruce), and ha was very favourably impressed with the man who is at present guiding the destinies of that country, “Mr Bruce is undoubtedly a man of strong personality,' said Mr Mackrell, “and is possessed of a keen, alert brain. He very wide outlook on present day affairs and, above all, is strongly imbued with the desire to promote the welfare of every part of the country;. He is truly an Australian at heart and has unbounded faith in Australia’s future, and, I think, justly so. Mr Bruce is a comparatively young man, being 42 years of age, and it is interesting to mention that most of his colleagues in the Cabinet are men who are in their forties. It certainly appears to be the day of the young politician, at any rate in the Commonwealth. “I found that Mr Bruce was very interested in the operation of the Dairy Control Act in New Zealand, and while be agreed that a system of control, up to a point, was very useful, and that collective bargaining done thiough such a board in the case of freights, insurance, etc., was a decided advantage, he’was totally opposed to anv compulsory clauses such as New Zealand possessed in its Act. He further informed me that he would not agree to have such powers given to the control boards in Aus tralia, and that any control of produce had to be done volubtarily by the people concerned. Mr Bruce was quite frank and open in his statement, and 1 think it must be of great interest to Now Zealanders as a whole to know what those on the other side of the Tasman Sea are thinking of this particular piece of legislation. In conclusion, I “may say that all the schemes in operation in Australia in regard to the control of products are purely voluntary ones, and have no semblance of compulsion.”