OBJECTION TO “CONTROL"
hindrance to new markets CHAMBERS REPLY TO FARMERS. THEIR ATTITUDE MISUNDERSTOOD. POWERS OF ABSOLUTE. CONTROL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. An emphatic protest against the reported request of the Associated Chambers of Commerce that the Government bring in legislation with a view to depriving the meat and dairy boards of their existing rights, whereby they control the shipping and marketing ,of meat and dairy produce, was registered by the executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in a letter read at a meeting today of the executive of the Associated Chambers. . . '
The letter stated that the union would not like to see either the Meat or , the Dairy Control Acts repealed. Considerable criticism had been directed at the Associated Chambers over its action in advocating that repeal. \ The meeting decided to reply pointing out that the union had altogether, a wrong impression of the attitude of the association; The latter had not opposed the voluntary organisations of the producers which, indeed, it was only too willing to assist, but it was against extreme powers being vested in the produce boards as those powers were in its opinion opposed to the interests of the producers and the country generally. The association was advocating repeal, not of the legislation, under which the various produce boards operated, but of clauses in the Acts which gave powers to the boards to assume absolute control of produce. That power was a strong deterrent to the efforts of private-firms and companies in seeking hew markets overseas for dairy produce and meat since the boards could forcibly take over those markets once they were established. i ' , ‘ ‘ Under the Fruit and Honey Beards, which were actually applying for absolute control, a private' merchant was at present not permitted to operate in the markets he himself had originally established.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1932, Page 4
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