DAIRY CONTROL.

Wairarapa Age, 19 March 1925, Page 5

DAIRY CONTROL.

SOUTH TARANAKI SUPPORTS BOARD. ELECTION SYSTEM CRITICISED. HAWEEA, March 18.—A crowded meeting of South Taranaki dairy farmers was held here to-day, which, after hearing the chairman, Mr W. Grounds, explain the policy of the Dairy Produce Control Board in regard to absolute control, rejected a motion requesting the suspension of control until a plebiscite of producers had been taken and carried, without a dissenting voice, a resolution approving the action of the Board. Those present weer unanimously in favour of asking the Government to have the Dairy Control Act so amended in the coming session as to provide that the Dominion, for dairy producers election purposes, shall be divided into wards. Mr Grounds also expressed himself as in favour of this amendment, for the present system of -the general election of members to the Dairy Control Board was not satisfactory, in that it left room for an allegation that one particular part of the Dominion was dominating the situation. -(PA.) A WELLINGTON PROTEST. DANGER OF ABSOLUTE CONTROL Wellington, March 18.—The Wellington Chamber of Commerce discussed the dairy control position and adopted the following statement today:— “The Wellington Chamber of Commerce learns with considerable anxiety that the Dairy Control Board is under no necessity to apply to the Government for authority to exercise full control of dairy products. This country is thus finally removing in one stroke the safeguards thought to be available when the bill was before the House. “The Chamber, while commending all efforts at improvement of the quality of Dominion products and marketing conditions, calls upon the Dairy Control Board not to wantonly disregard the voice. This Chamber disassociates itself entirely from expressing the views of directly interested persons, but seeks to protect the fabric of commercial and mercantile aetivities which makes production, transport and distribution possible, and which, turn, makes tic market what it is. “It is of opinion that the Dairy Control Board is not fully seized of the possibilities and the dangers ahead, and, in rushing beyond limited control, judiciously adopted in the ease of the Meat Hoard, it exposes the industry to the hostility of those interests in a position to do this country incalculable harm by supporting, through finance and patronage, our principal competitors in the trade. “This Chamber calls upon the DairyControl Board to hesitate before launching out into unknown waters and to give due study to the economic factors which have made dairy and all other industries what they are today.”—(P.A.)