PRODUCE CONTROL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1927, Page 4

PRODUCE CONTROL.

To the Editor of the “Timaru Herald.” Sir, —Permit- me to refresh your memory re a “topie,” that appeared in your issue after the I'J22 elections of Temuka, advising Mr .Needham to ■“leave politics alone” merely because I was, (and still am) opposed to any form of produce control, and advocated a free market. To what extent is the country involved financially, for the Reform Governments experiment, re dairy control, with the huge expenditure of membership both at Home and abroad without the actual Joss of butter and cheese involved, and not including the total loss of the first shipment of £‘500,000 This item may have been forgotten. Permit me, sir, was the dairy control and its compulsory clause enacted, to coven up the operations of the Meat ,Boards and syndicalised land. New Zealand was warned to leave compulsory control alone. The butter and dairy farmers have had their day, and meat control will follow in due course. —1 am etc., PHIL. R. NEEDHAM. Auckland, March 16.