CONTROL BOARD “OLD MAN’S HOME.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18349, 21 August 1929, Page 13

CONTROL BOARD “OLD MAN’S HOME.”

FARMERr “ LONG-BUFFER." *t~ CROWD.' By TtUffrftph—Pr««« AasocUti**. PAHIATUA. August 20. Some picturesque allusions to the Control Board were made at the annual meeting of suppliers of the North Tiraumea Company at Kohinui. During a discussion on prices, Mr Brechin said he believed the market to be hardening quite definitely. What was helping to depress the price was the fact that the Control Board constantly allowing three or four boats to unload at London at the same time. Mr F. T. Ladd: “Do you think the Control Board is doing us any good at the present time?” Mr Brechin: “Not at all. It is doing us a lot of harm." The Board, he added, was a sort o? “Old Man’s Home.” They had the spectacle of the chairman earning £750 per annum, plus expenses, running up and down the country. Other members of the Board received £250 per annum. The Board, said Mr Brechin, was controlled by commercial Government interests. It was the farmer who was paying for those organisations that were being built up. There was nothing much in it for anybody but the people who had jobs. He instanced delay in getting produce away from the Dominion. The North Tiraumea Company in one case had had some cheese on a boat that was eighty-two days on the coast of New Zealand, yet the farmer still tolerated this state of affairs. “We’re a long-suffering crowd” was his comment.