STATE CONTROL
RESENTMENT EXPRESSED DISPOSAL OF FARM PRODUCE (Special to Time?) INVERCARGILL. Saturday Alarm at the increasing authority the Government is asserting over the disposal of farm produce was expressed at the Southland Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union to-day. The discussion arose in reference to a statement that the Minister of Marketing would announce in a few days the procedure to be observed in the marketing of potatoes. The Dominion president. Mr \V. \V. Mulholland. sent the following telegram to the Minister: Press reports representations from potato growers concerning marketing. and your intention to announce the procedure to be followed next week. No farmers' organisations have authorised representations. Any person claiming to represent growers had no right to to do so Farmers will resent commandeer of produce, which message seems to indicate Is tinder consideration." Mr Mulholland said that the majority of the Government* supporters would not stand for full State ownership and control of the means of production. distribution and exchange, put Ministers are being pushed by the Federation of Labour, which, with 180.000 members, is the strongest organised body in the Dominion. " The Minister of Land*, the HOI F. LaagStOM, fold the recent Labour Party conference that State ownership of iand was the Government’s aim."
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20523, 13 June 1938, Page 2
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208STATE CONTROL Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20523, 13 June 1938, Page 2
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