BUTTER EXPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16747, 13 March 1926, Page 6

BUTTER EXPORT.

FREE IYIARKETTERS AND CONTROL. MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS. (Times Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Friday, '['ho two parties to tile dairy produce controversy continue to air their respective propaganda and to exchange their mutual recriminations through Inc newspapers. The Free Marketing League has Leon eonlining its operations mainly to the Taranaki and Manawatu districts, where it appears to have made very substantial progress, while the Absolute Controllers have cast all their burdens upon Mr William Grounds, the chairman of the Dairy Board, who proclaims Dial the members of the Board are going to stick in their seals and to their policy of compulsion whatever the producers and their representatives may say to the contrary.

In view of the fact that the legislation on flie Statute Book clothes the board with absolute authority, it is not easy to think of any means by which Mr Grounds and 11is colleagues could lie turned from their way. But ihe Prime Minisfor, on Ihe. other hand, having made it quite plain that he does not. favour ihe hoard proceeding to full compulsion before it has proved ilsclf fully representative of a majority of the producers, the board may consider it prudent to stay its hand. It looks as if that, in the circumstances, would he Ihe more prudent course. Meanwhile it is understood that (he Free Marketing League, having taken professional advice on ihe subject, is prepared to submit Ihe question of compulsion to the highest judicial-tri-bunal in Hie Empire.