MANAWATU A. AND P. SHOW.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19816, 15 June 1926, Page 4

MANAWATU A. AND P. SHOW.

THE BUTTER AWARDS. (Pbb United Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, June 14. The twenty-fourth annual Winter Show of the Manawatu A. and I’. Association will open to-morrow. There is every indication that the show will be a great success. The results in the butter classes were announced to-day. Mr W. S. Death, manager of the Awahuri Factory, won outright the Lavell and Christmas 100 guineas and cup for the championship of New Zealand, having Avon it three times. The Awahuri Factory headed the list in this competition, but was barred from the award, having been a winner on two previous occasions. The award was shared by the Okola Company and Shannon, each with 188 points. The provincial gold medals were won by Auckland (Cambridge Factory), Wellington, Hawke’s Bay (Awahuri), Taranaki (Mangorei), and South Island (Golden Coast). The butter awards included Canterbury Central first, 05 points, for a box of butter suitable for export. There were 31 entries. The same factory was second with 05 points, half a point behind Masterton, for a box of butter for export (open to members of the Factory Managers’ Association). There were 23 entries. Kaikoura was second with 94 points for a box for export from bulk. There were 24 entries.

Waiaruhe (Hawke’s Bay) Avon the New Zealand Championship, 054 points, Shannon 95, Karamea 944. There were 24 entries.

Cenferbury Centra!, with 95 points, was first for a box of butter from home-sepa-rated cream, and also a box made by a bnttermaker or manager’s assistant, with 95 points. . The judges, in their comments, said that it was gratifying to note the increased entries over the last year, and also congratulated the managers of the companies on the very fine qualities of the exhibits, and remarked that the flavour, body, texture, colour, salting, etc., was well up to the standard of high-class butters. The following were the cheese awards:— The Dalofield Factory won the New Zealand championship with 95.33 points, Tuatu 04 60, llopelands 94.33. J. Linton, manager of the Dalofield Factory, and Fred W. J. Dclahunty (Tuatu), for the New Zealand shipping Company’s Cup, secured 190,5 points each. The cheese championship of Manawatu (West Coast) was won by Farewanui, the Mnrgatroyd Cup by Alton, and the South Island gold modal by Collingwood. The Dalofield Company registered its second win in the Clement Cup.

the dairy control board. Dear “Rusticus,” —;I wish, in answer to vour question some time ago in connection with Dairy Control Board matters to ask: What does the farmer really want.' 1 To state Mr Mason’s view briefly, he wants to instruct the board how, and where, and when his produce is to be sold, and there must be no pooling. Mr Mason seems to support the labour principle that representatives such as delegates to a council arc bound to vote according to a ticket. But, as Mr Grounds says, there are 50,000 suppliers, and it everyone wanted, as Mr Mason does, the right to dictate a policy, the result would be confusion. I am also not only satisfied with what the hoard has done, but 1 am amazed that it has been able to have its arrangements in such a satisfactory position as they are at present. Sir Iliilip Cunliffc-Listcr, Minister of the Board ot Trade, said in the House ot Commons, when the New Zealand Dairy and Meat Control Boards were criticised: “The Control Boards arc a natural development and sound in principle.” He vent on to enumerate the advantages of pooling—notably uniform grading, improved marketing conditions, continuity of supply, and avoidance of speculation. He said that was a policy that benefited consumers and producers alike. Moreover, tho boards wore not peculiar to our Empire, as Californian fruit and Danish bacon were similarly marketed in Britain. Any form of exploitation or price fixing would simply defeat itself, and was not the intention of the boards. This last remark entirely agrees with what Mr Grounds stated to the South Island Dairy Association recently. <uiy board tnat can in any degree accomplish whnt the Minister of the Board of Trade sets out must be of great benefit to all dairymen, and therefore all should pay for it. Mr Grounds, in the address referred to. showed the amount the board saved in shipping freight and insurance. He also stated that the marketing expenses of the board would be about £BOOO, but he added that even if it were £10,0,00 it would be a tremendous reduction on the present costs of £IOO,OOO. Anyone who has any conception of the magnitude ot the business that the board has to handle, and the responsibilities it has to carry, must acknowledge that it must have a fixed working policy, because without one confusion and loss would be certain. One of the principal conditions put forward by dealers is steady monthly supplies to ensure a steady market. This means that the board must cither control all the shipments or resign. The board has therefore decided to take complete control in August. The general idea amongst farmers and others opposed to the board's policy is that the board is going to seize their produce, which of course would be illegal. It was rather significant that the judges in the recent Supreme Court action suggested that when the board broke the law it would be time enough to take proceedings. Has it never occurred to the, opponents of the hoard that when it made an arrangement with the shipowners it would he for the whole of the butter export, not simply for a part? When it comes to the matter of electing the board it should be apparent that a vote by factories or directors would entail only a fraction of the trouble and cost of the ‘‘one man one vote” idea. The latter method, I contend, is unfair because I hold a man with five shares has no right to exercise the same control as one with 100. One share one vote is much fairer; but I certainly favour the ward principle. —I am, etc.. Farmer. Knitangata, June 14.