DAIRY CONTROL

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 7 April 1927, Page 5

DAIRY CONTROL

MR PATERSON RESIGNS. (Per Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, April 5. Mr Stronach Paterson has written to Sir Janies Pair, resigning his position as Government representative in the London agency of the New Zealand Dairy Control Board. The letter points out that Mr Paterson discussed the matter fully with Mr Coates last November, ann quotes Mr Paterson’s letter to Mr Coates of November 8, suggesting thru the only course open to the writer was to continue his work until opportunity offered for such a modification, of the machinery of control as might mitigate the bad results feared, ana for the breaking down of the prevailing hostility to New Zealand dairy produce, also- the re-establishment of goodwill and co-operation in tin branches of the dairy produce trade in this country, to' which Mr Coates agreed.

Mr Paterson: also' quotes a letter to Mr Coates, of December 28, stating that he would consent to carry on the duties as long as lie had- Mr Coates’s confidence, of which Mr Coates assured him. He also 1 expressed a wish that he should carry on, with the understanding that Mr Paterson should continue the policy outlined on November 7, which policy had since been scrupulously followed. In December, Mr Paterson informed Mr Coates that ■r was impossible to carry on if Mr J. B. Wright were appointed to the London agency, andl fpjly explained the reasons for this attitude. As' M'Wright has now been appointed from •the date of the- departure of Messrs lorns and Martin, towards the end if this month, Mr Paiterson asks Sir James Parr to convey to the Prime Minister his desire- to resign his position forthwith.