“POLITICAL HUMBUG”
GUARANTEED PRICES. DAIRY COMPANY SHAREHOLDERS’ CRITICISM. (Per United Press Association.) Hastings, August 19. “Political eyewash” and “humbug’ were among the terms used during the voicing of trenchant criticism at Saturday’s meeting of shareholders of the Heretaunga Dairy Company of the proposal of guaranteed prices for dairy produce as enunciated by the Labour Party. The chairman, Mr D. G. Begley, said that he considered proposals which were impracticable of application would not stand investigation. It would be a system of inflation that would have a disastrous effect on the primary producers. Mr Begley expressed the hope that dairymen would not be swayed by ridiculous suggestions for lifting prices to fantastic levels which would place an intolerable burden on the community. , A motion endorsing Mr Begley s action in opposing guaranteed prices at a recent conference of the National Dairy Association held at Palmerston North was carried unanimously by the larrc attendance.
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Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 6
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