IS BOARD OLD MEN’S HOME?

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 198, 21 August 1929, Page 8

IS BOARD OLD MEN’S HOME?

DAIRY CONTROL CRITICISED. [ Per Press Association. ] PAHIATUA, Aug. 20. Some picturesque allusions to the Dairy Control Board were made at the annual meeting by the suppliers of the North Tiraumea Company, 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 was constantly allowing three or four boats to unload at London at the same time.

Mr F. T. Ladd inquired, “Do you think that the Control Board is doing us any good at the present time?” Mr Brechin replied: “Not at all; it is doing us a lot of hrf m.” The Board, he added, was a sort of “old man’s home.” They ad the spectacle of a chairman earning £750 per annum, plus expenses, running up and down the country. Other members of the Board were receiving £250 per annum. The Board, said Mr Brechin, was controlled by commercial and Government interests. It was the former 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 the delay in getting produce away from the Dominion. The North Tiraumea Company in qjpe case had had some cheese on a boat that was 82 days on the coast of New Zealand. Yet the fanner still tolerated this state of affairs. “We’re a longsuffering crowd,” was his comment.