DAIRY CONTROL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 2768, 7 April 1927, Page 4

DAIRY CONTROL.

(To the Editor). Sir,—Will you kindly allow me, to pen a few remarks on this matter. At the present time it is uppermost in the minds of suppliers, and as -there will shortly be an election for new members of the Control Board the matter, requires the earnest thought of every producer to enable liim to cast his vote rightly. '

I will put just a few facts before him, and in doing so let me say that I have always been, opposed to control as an impracticable theory. Tho supplier up to the present lias regularly received his.money on the 20th of each month) and to-enable liim -to do this it has been necessary to go to the (wicked) Tooley Street’ merchant for u ninety per cent, advance. Now, , sir, having received -this advance, who does the produce belong to, or in other words who has got the last word in its disposal? Is it still ours? Seeing that we only supply to the London market about 23 per cent of its requirements, how are. we to dictate to the trade as to what they shall do? There has been much wild talk about Tooley Street making £IOO,OOO out of our butter and cheese, but lot me say that in my opinion the Control Board has, through actions, lost ten times more than by losing the goodwill that it has takeflp us 25 years to build up. And now, to crown all, these vampires in Tooley Street have actually had the check to appoint tbCiV chairman Mr ftp!)insert, who Fas been associated with Paterson in bringing about the downfall of the Control Board. More work, sir, for pur .local Farmers’ Union to get Mr Robinson removed! Of course, tins means another trip Home for someone, and the hard-working cow-spanker will cheerfully milk an extra cow or two to provide the necessary cash. To my mind, sir, any hope the pro; duccr has of getting a better return lies in economy of manufacture, management and transport. As a class \ye have nothing to thank the Government for, but on tho other hand the industry has been loaded with extra charges in freight, grading fees and other -incidental charges, not forgetting the Control Board with its levy of between £50,000 and £60,000 a year in hard cash to j create a lot of fat billets; and last of all by the. help of the Labour Party placing on the Statute Book an Act that deprived us as Britishers of our individual rights, and thereby recognising the principle that any Government is justified in confiscating the lands of the people, for having taken the produce of the land, there is no other value ‘ left. —I am, etc.,

MARTIN BUTLER. Cambridge, April 6th, 1927.