DAIRY CONTROL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 7 April 1927, Page 9

DAIRY CONTROL.

NEW ZEALAND’S LONDON POLICY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 6, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. Mr Stronach Paterson has written to Sir James Parr, resigning his position as Government representative on the London agency of the New Zealand Dairy Control Board. The letter points out that Mr Paterson discussed the matter fully with Mr Coates last November, ano quotes Mr Paterson’s letter to Mr Coates of November 8, suggesting tbr.i the only course open to the writer was to continue his work until opportunity offered for such a modification of the machinery of control as might mitigate the had results feared, ana for the breaking down of the prevailing hostility to New Zealand dairy produce, also the re-establishment of goodwill and cooperation in an branches of the dairy produce trade in this country, to which Mr Coates agreed. Mr Paterson also quotes a letter to Mr Coates, of December 28, stating that he would consent to carry on the duties ns long as he had Mr Coates’s confidence, of which Mr Coates assured him. He also expressed a wish that he should carry on, with tho understanding that Mr Paterson should continue the policy outlined on November 7, which policy had since been scrupulously followed. In December, Mr Paterson informed Air Coates that if was impossible to carry on if Mr J. B. Wright were appointed to the London agency, and fully explained tlie reasons for this attitude. As Mr Wright has now been appointed from the date of the departure of Messrs lorns and Martin, towards the end of this month, Air Paterson asks Sir Janies Parr to convey to tho Prime Alinistcr his desire to resign his position forthwith.