THE CONTROL MUDDLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16301, 7 April 1927, Page 7

THE CONTROL MUDDLE

MR. PATERSON RESIGNS SOME INNER HISTORY [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 5. Mr. Stronach Paterson has written to the New Zealand High Commissioner, James Parr, resigning his position ot oiivenuuent representative on the London agency of the New Zealand Dairy Control Board.

The letter points out that Mr. Paterson discussed the matter >i'ully with Mr. Coates last November, and quotes Mr. Paterson's letter to Mr. Coates on November 8 suggesting that the only course open to the- writer was to continue the work as the opportunity ottered for such modification of the machinery of control as might mitigate the bad results he feared, ■ and for breaking down the prevailing hostility to New Zealand dairy produce, also the re-establishment of goodwill and co-operation in all branches of the dairy produce trade in this country, to wliich.Mr. Coates had agreed. It also quotes a letter to Mr. Coates on December 28, stating that hewould consent to carry on the duties as long as he had Mr. Coates' confidence, of which Mr. Coates had assured him. The Premier also expressed the wish that he carry on, with the understanding that Mr. Paterson should continue the policy outlined on November 8, which policy had since been scrupulously followed. In December Mr. Paterson informed Mr. Coates it was impossible for him to carry on if Mr. J. B. Wright was appointed to the London agency, and fully explained his reasons for this attitude. As Mr. Wright has now been appointed from the date of the departure of Messrs. lorns and Motion towards the end of this month, Mr. Paterson asks Sir James Panto convey to the Prime Minister his desire to resign from the position forthwith.