DAIRY INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA
FUTURE POWERS OF STATE
NEW ZEALAND SCHEME AS COMPARISON (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 12.20 a.m.) Sydney, August 6. Discussing the future marketing of butter, arising out of the Privy Council’s decision in the dried fruits case, a leading producer and exporter, Mr R. C. Gibson, at Lismore said that it was doubtful whether a referendum of the people would be prepared to give the Federal Government powers which the Privy Council held and the Government did not at present possess. It was likely, however, that an effort would be made at the next conference of premiers to delegate the control of the butter industry to the Commonwealth. A unanimous decision was necessary, and he doubted whether the States as a whole would agree. Mr Gibson pointed out that the New Zealand scheme would not give local dairymen returns greater than were at present being received by dairy farmers in Australia. The value of the New Zealand scheme rested not so much on higher prices as on the fact that dairymen knew in advance what they would get for their product. They had, become, in effect, servants of the Government.
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Southland Times, Issue 22962, 7 August 1936, Page 7
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