DAIRY CONTROL.

Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 9

DAIRY CONTROL.

To the Editor. Sir, —In a recent issue a Mr D. Rutledge writes stating that he was not responsible in any way for ope or more letters appearing in your columns in favour of control. Sir, to this statement I have but one comment. If the cap fits let Mr Rutledge wear I would have refrained from print but for some other statements he makes. He writes: “I would suggest that Mr Bourchier also takes the oath of silence.” Sir, advice from Mr Rutledge on these lines is taken at its face value as I have no doubt that he and his friends would be only too pleased if the only news regarding control was passed and approved by themselves. But when did he take the oath? Three or four weeks back at a semi-public meeting he was going big guns on control. Why now silent ? Is he waiting to see which way the cat is going to jump ? The class of litrt-ature I write, Sir, may not be very instructive or convincing, but at any rate ’tis not as misleading as some given out by controlites. I never wrote to be amusing—dairying is not such a fine stunt that one can afford to be amusing and more so when one writes about other people’s mistakes for which he has to foot the bill. Mr. D. Rutledge’s attitude on the control question reminds me of the first time, some 25 years ago, I attended an agricultural and pastoral show. 'Hie game of Aunt Sally, four shots for sixpence, nine for a shilling was in progress. Amongst the onlookers was an oldish man who was advising the mugs to have a go. If the boys won, he took the credit; if they lost it didn’t cost him anything. So with Mr Rutledge. Would he have been as keen on control if his job depended on the results as it would have if he was holding down his present situation for a butter company in Denmark?—l am, etc.. JOHN BOURCHIER.