NO WIDE GAP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 12, 15 January 1936, Page 8

NO WIDE GAP

MARKETING OF PRODUCE DAITT BOARD AND GOVERNMENT. NO DECISION MADE YET Si'HE.TL BEING FORML'LA'ITD I Per Presj. Asx.ciauon. J WELLINGTON, Jan. 14. " I here •> no wide gap between thf opinion uf the Dairy iJoarU and those oi ihe Goxernment a- regards the mar keiing uf dairy produce in New Zealand and oxer.'cas, ’ said ihe Prime Minister, in® Hon. M. ,j, bava rT e la*t evening at tue conriusion ot a Lauiuei meeting. luuved, he said, “bolh the Gov* ernnient aud the board have Hie same oujei-tive in x iew, and that is simplv io secure the best possible result lvr‘the piuducers anti the country as a whole. ’ lhe Prime Minister explained that the members ot ; he. board and Ministers had held a confer nice in the fore noon, when mere wa b a general discussion oxer lhe whole question ot marketing. but no decisions were made. ‘‘l Ira x e proposed,’’ continued Mr. •Sax age, “to invite several represent lives oi the board to meet some members i>f the Gox'ernmenl for the pur pose of’attacking the details of a marketing scheme, it is merely a question of arriving at a cvmiuoQ fciicy. ' Asked whether there was anv conflict of opinion <»r outstanding difference about the Government’s projected policy of guaranteed prices and the local marketing of dairy produce, t-he Prim® Minister said hat lie could see no difficulty in the way. "We have promised to provide a guaranteed economic price for farmers’ services and also to make provision for selling the surplus overseas,” Mr. Savage ad*’d. "I do not see that there is any conflict in that. It ia really a question of devising a practical scheme and obtaining the best possible machinery for putting it into effect.”