DAIRY COMMISSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 10

DAIRY COMMISSION

THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE FIRST WITNESS HEARD. (Pit United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 9. The hearing of evidence by the Royal Commission which has been appointed to investigate the dairying industry was commenced at Parliament Buildings this morning. The chairman, Mr Justice Frazer, presided. At the conclusion of the days sitting in .the late afternoon, he stated that the commission had not yet come to a final decision on the question of taking evidence Outside Wellington. The first witness, J)r R. M. Campbell, private secretary of the staff of the Minister of Finance"(Mr Coates), gave evidence regarding the discussions at the Imperial Economic Conference held at Ottawa and at the World Economic and Monetary. Conference held in London last year; He also tendered evidence in connection with the discussion which had taken place between'the British and New Zealand Governments. . The afternoon sitting was occupied with an examination of the secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board,'Mr T. C. Brash. After making a statement covering the many aspects of the manufacture and marketing of dairy products, Mr Brash was questioned at length by members of the commission. On Sunday, the commission will proceed to Palmerston North with a view to visiting the Dairy Research Institute at Massey Agricultural College on Monday, and there having explained the various opertalons in connection with cheesemaking. The director of the institute, Professor W. Riddet, is also a member of the secretariat of three appointed to assist the commission. Next week’s sittings will be resumed on Tuesday morning. TARANAKI REQUESTS EXTENSION OF INQUIRY SOUGHT. (Pu United Press Association.} NEW PLYMOUTH, May 9. Another meeting of Taranaki farmers to-night unanimously passed resolutions requesting that an investigation of farm and stock mortgages should be specific- • ally provided for in the order of reference of the commission. It was* further resolved that a deputation should wait on .the. Prime.' Minister, to urge , that sittings of the. commission should be held in Taranaki. NO MIRACLE POSSIBLE WARNING BY MR lORNS. (Fee United Press Association.} WELLINGTON, May 9. The opinion that those who hoped for a miracle from the Royal Commission on the dairy industry were bound to be disappointed was expressed by Mr W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board and a member of the commission, during: an. address at a reunion to-night of -40'members-of the Neiv Zealand farmers’ party which toured Greet Britain and Europe in 1930. Mr lorn* added that he could not say much about the industry at the present time as the commission was stiting.