WHAT DEGREE?

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 6

WHAT DEGREE?

RETORT COURTEOUS WIRE TO MR. GOODFELLOW In criticising the report of the Dairy Industry Commission and the proposed legislation In respect to it, Mr. W. Goodfellow, in the course of an interview in Auckland, said, inter alia: “What, has been accomplished very thoroughly is to incorporate into a report a most doubtful and dangerous experimental scheme for the socialisation of agriculture, presumably prepared 'by Dr. Campbell. . . . The scheme, has undoubtedly been evolved by the two Americanised economists who- advise Mr. Coates on almost all matters except local industries. These estimable young gentlemen, with their American degrees, inexperienced though they are, are the real planners. They are ambitious enough to outbid both Stalin and Roosevelt, who so far have failed in their objective to successfully socialise agriculture.” . Mr. R. M. Campbell, a member of the staff of Mr. Coates, Minister of Finance, sent the following telegram from Wellington to Mr. Goodfellow: ‘‘To William Goodfellow, Esq., Amalgamated Dairies, Auckland,—As you bring my name into your press propaganda and appeal to prejudice by reference not only to Stalin and Roosevelt, but, worst of all, to my American degree, may I. say that, as a simple matter of fact I have not the honor to hold any degree from any university other than the University of New Zealand and the University of London, which is in England. Kind regards.— R. M. Campbell.”