DAIRY PRODUCE

Southland Times, Issue 21193, 20 September 1930, Page 7

DAIRY PRODUCE

SHIPMENTS AT WANGANUI.

STATEMENT BY AIR HINE.

(Per United Press Association.)

New Plymouth, September 19

Mr James Hine, who has for some months been acting-chairman of the Dairy Board, takes exception to the statement reported by the Press Association to have been made by the Minister of Agriculture in reply to a question from Mr J. T. Hogan (1., Rangitikei) regarding the shipping company’s refusal to load certain dairy produce on the lonic at Wanganui. The report attributes to the chairman of the board a statement that it u'as not the board that was responsible, but the shipping company which insisted on conditions in the contract, one of which was that Wanganui should not be a port of loading. Mr Hine states that the Wanganui Harbour Board, which also controls the cold stores there, has been giving special inducements in order to divert certain dairy factories’ produce to Wanganui and as at the same time the board increased ship’s dues the shipping companies naturally concluded that they were not only being forced to contribute indirectly to the cost of this diversion, but were also in some cases incurring payments for coastal freight which would have been avoided had the produce been loaded at Wellington. They therefore insisted that under the new contract produce would only be accepted for shipment at Wanganui from those factories which had been shipping from there prior to November 1, 1925, or produce from dairy factories erected in the vicinity of Wanganui since that date.