CONTROL BOARD NOMINEES
MERCHANT AND GOVERNMENT. WELLINGTON, August 1. In the House of Representatives to-day Mr A. Bell (Bay of Islands) asked the Minister of Agriculture (Mr O. J. Hawken) whether he will again consider the question of the abolition of merchants and also Government nominees on ouf
control boards. The Minister replied that in view of the fact that control boards are vested with wide powers of control over the produce owned by all interests—proprietary as well as co-operative—and having regard to the influence which the exercise of these powers can exert upon the welfare of the producers and the consumers of the Dominion, the Government is of the opinion that it is only equitable that all interests immediately concerned and also the Government should have due representation on the boards.
. Several country districts’ representatives adversely criticised the answer, and condemned the Government for its attitude on this question.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 13
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