“Mr Pocket ” and “Mr Producer"

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 8

“Mr Pocket ” and “Mr Producer"

WORD ON DAIRY CONTROL PASSAGE IN HOUSE ( THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reportc]WELLINGTON, Tuesday A DELIGHTFUL little rebuke ve administered to Mr. J. A. Nasi Palmerston, in the House of Reprr sentatives to-night. Mr. Nash, who a well known in his opposition to dairy control, interjected—when Mr. J. R Hamilton was defending dairy control “Dairy Control,” said Mr. Hamilton, “is blamed for/our economic pos. tion.” Mr. Nash: Quite right. Mr. Hamilton: We might eipec: that. A member who neither plough nor sows, nor reaps, nor hoes, shonti tell the man on the land how he Is tt go about his work. Mr. Nash: You are saying a goof bit about it. Mr. Hamilton: Yes; and I ploughs:: sow as much as any member in the House, but others I know are extra; ing too much from the handling trail 4 fer of the land. (Laughter.) There are too many middlemen, and they are getting too miich for the service they give to the community. Willj anyone make bold to say that the o* ponents of control opposed it in the interests of “Mr. Producer?” Neve: on your life. It was in the interest? of “Mr. Pocket.” They wanted the full pound of flesh, irrespective owhether anything is left for the poet old producer. Mr. Nash; The farmers did it then selves. Mr. Hamilton: No, the propaganc. you issued influenced the farms: against himself. Mr. Nash: The farmer put th? money up. Mr. Hamilton: No, he did not. Mr. Nash: Yes, he did. Mr. Hamilton: I could tell you did. Mr. Nash: Who did? Mr. Hamilton: I will not say. Mr. Nash: Oh, tell us. The Speaker: Order! Order! Mr. Nash continued to interject an Mr. Hamilton retorted: “Oh, you hav dairy control on the brain. If t&J* Who opposed dairy control hsassisted us to bridge the gulf betweeour producers and the consume l, ® Great Britain, things would have beeall right. The Dairy Board put a proposition fair and just. Th e c0 _ sumer in Great Britain was not so I against us. He did not know the nf that was being waged in this country Mr. Hamilton said that there * no reason why the farmer should be allowed to fix the price of b ,s duce, just as could people who sol box of snuff or a tin of mustard.