EXPORT CONTROL BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 9

EXPORT CONTROL BOARD

DO FARMERS WANT CHANGE?

DEBATE ON MR, LYSNAR’S BILL?

REFORM MEMBERS’ OPPOSITION.

■y Tel«craph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night. The lionise of Representatives to-day Continued the .second reading debate on the Meat Export Control Amendment Bill introduced by Mr. W. D. Lysnar (Independent, Gisborne), who was still defending the measure when the House rose at 5.30 p.m. until Tuesday afternoon.

In moving the second reading yesterday Mr. Lysnar said the Bill would alter the .method of electing the Control Board, would cancel the appointment of Government nominees, and would remove the commercial representative,

Opposition to the measure was expressed by a number of Reform members, Mr. Lysnar occasionally interjecting with a request to let the House vole on the issue. Mr. H. G. Dickie (Reform, Patea) said he was pot in favour of . tip Bill, as it would not remedy the position. Ho considered, however, that the Meat Board was extravagant; it was costing the producers a lot of money. Mr. A. Hamilton (Reform, Wallace) def ended'the' board's policy. He said Mr. Lysnar had no , mandate for his Rill; he shpujd have gone to meetings of the Farmers’ Union and delegates to the Meat Board before submitting hie amendment to the House. The Government should not allow the measure to proceed before the opinions of interested parties had been obtained. Mr. Hamilton moved that tlie Rill be read six months hence in order that the opinions of producers might be obtained before the House was asked further to consider the Bill.METHOD SATISFACTORY. Mr, C. E- Macmillan (Reform, Taxxranga), in seconding the amendment, said the farmers did not. want the present system of election, to be . changed, Replying to a request to state the Government’s attitude toward the Bill the Hon. A. J. Murdoch, Minister of Agriculture, pointed out that it Was a private member’s.measure, It had been suggested that dairy farmers in conference recently had brought up the question of altering the system of plec-. tion to the board; the actual position was that at'the New Plymouth conference the proposal had been put forward by a committee but had not been endorsed by the conference and the matter had been deferred until next year. . ' Mr. Lysnar had .consulted him last year, on the proposal- to eliminate the Government representatives on the board but, the Minister said, he had replied then that the Government would not agree to such .a proposal. He thought the Government would Still insist on haying representatives on the Iward. Beyond tlyxt it seemed to bo a matter -for the House to decide whether the Bill should pass or not. Mr. D. McDougall (United Mataura) then moved; “That the question be now put.” The Speaker said he was afraid he could not gee hisway to establish a precedent by sanctioning a closure motion on the second reading of a private member's .Bill which had been under discussion for only a little more than thrive hours. ’ - ■ : • CREDIT GIVEN MR. LYSNAR. The debate then continued. Mr. G. R, Sykes (Reform, Mfustertqix) paid that while he gave every'credit to Mr. Lysnar for his endeavour to improve the lot of the producer, ho could not see his way clear to support the present Bill. He regarded the present method of election as very democratic. The Leader of the Labour Party (Mr. H. E. Holland) suggested it would be a fair thing to let the Bill go to the vote, bo that it could be .sent to the agricultural committee if it passed the second reading. On the question being put that the .word “now” stand part of the original question “that the Bill be now read a second time,” the voting was 26 for, 27 agaihet, the division list being:— . For. . Ann-strong. McCombs. Atmore. ' McDougall. Broadfoot. McKepif. Carr. . Macpherson. Chapman. Martin. Fraser. Munro. Healy. Nash, W. Hogan. Ngata. Holland, H. E. O’Brien. Howard. Rushworth. Langstone. Savage. Lye. Smith. Lysnar. Sullivan. Against. Bitcbener. Macmillan. Burnett. Mason. Coates. Massey, J. N. Cobbe. $ Massey,. W. W. de la Perrcjle. Murdoch. Dickie, Hash, J. A. Endean. , Ransom. Field.- Stewart. Forbes. Veitch. Hamilton. Waite. Harris. Holland, H. ’Wright. Jones. Young. Kyle. The question “that the Bill be read this day six months” wa« then put. Mr. Lysnar rose to epeak and , was still occupying, the floor when the House rose at 6.3() p.m. till 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday.