SUPPLIER VOTING

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 25 June 1937, Page 10

SUPPLIER VOTING

DAIRY COMPANY CONTROL. PROTEBT BY CONFERENCE. “There is a move on foot, principally by suppliers in the Waikato and •Hawke’s Bay, I believe, to ask the Government to legislate for a change in the voting system of co-operative dairy companies,” commented a delegate to the National Dairy Federation Conference in Hamilton yesterday, in support of a remit from the Rangitaiki Plains ’Co-operative Dairy 'Company. The remit urged the conference to oppose strongly any suggestion of Government Interference with the existing rights of individual dairy companies to determine, under their own Articles of Association, their own regulations, and in particular, their own basis of voting. The delegate understood that the suppliers wanted the “one-supplier one vote system,” and he contended that under a socialistic Government they were likely to get a sympathetic hearing. These matters of voting powers should be the rights of the individual companies concerned, and he urged conference to support the remit. Other speakers contended that the system as outlined would be detrimental to the harmonious working of a co-operative dairy oompany, as they did not think it right that the “billy suppliers”—those with one or two cows—should have the same voting power as farmers with herds of two or three hundred. Conference unanimously decided to support the remit.