OUR READERS’ VIEWPOINT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 68, Issue 5943, 15 May 1944, Page 4

OUR READERS’ VIEWPOINT

“DAIRY DISRUPTERS” Sir, —In your issue of the 10th instant appears an extract from the “Peoples Voice,” published in Auckland, which unfortunately casts unfair reflection upon the attitude of Mr A. J. Sinclair, at the recent Ward Conference of the New Zealand Dairy Board, held in Morrinsville, towards a remit sent forward by our company, and quoted in your paper, which has as its object the stimulating of production of primary products throughout New Zealand. .

When the remit came before the conference it was suggested by Mr. Sinclair that I withdraw it in favour of a similar remit passed two days before at the Whangarei conference, and it is clearly indicated that there was little difference between the two remits, as I agreed to this course being followed provided the conference approved of the change. The delegates, however, considered that the shorter remit conveyed more clearly the desire of the conference, and on being put to the vote by the chairman, Mr A. J. Murdoch, was carried, I believe without a dissenting voice. The “Peoples Voice” states: “Mi Sinclair’s attempt to defeat this very fine remit was defeated largely owing to the firm stand taken by Mr Hale.” But so far as I remember Mr Hale said nothing whatever when these remits were before the conference. It is extremely regrettable that such gross mistatements of facts should be published as that reprinted in your paper, and I would say that, having been associated with Mr Sinclair in the dairy industry for many years that you have probably no other man in your district who has, over a long period, laboured, in many capacities, so loyally and capably for the benefit of the dairy industry. The suggestion that to endeavour to place our industry on a sounder Uncial basis is unpatriotic and is un cd for, and even our Government, conscious at last of the financial danger that is already upon us, largely because of neglect of our representations and unwise trade agreements, is making efforts to stem the tide that flows against this Dominion. In conclusion, Sir, let me appeal to all of your readers to range themselves solidly beside us, irrespective of their little differences, in our effort which will call for our maximum strength, to supply our beloved home land, and our lighting forces, with the products only we may send. The urgent necessity to arrest the decline, already in some cases amounting to a quarter of our production, and to send it on the up grade, will not be accomplished without the wholehearted effort of each and every one of us.—l am, etc.,

W. DARRALL, Chairman of Directors, Tatua Coop. Dairy Co., Ltd.. Tatuanui.