PERHAPS MR. NASH DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR

Chronicle (Levin), 7 June 1946, Page 5

PERHAPS MR. NASH DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR

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DUNEDIN, June 6. j Difficulties experienced in receiving a hearing from the- Minister of Fin- , ance, Hon. W. Nash, for a proposed new scheme for removing prices for * dairy produce from politieal control, f were referred to by the chairman (Mr. , H. H. Meredith)-, at the annual confer- , ence of the South Island Dairy Associ- 1 ation. A plan had been brought down • after mueh thought by the Dairy Board j and dairy industry jointly, and it had j been unanimously approved at theo Dominion Dairy Conference last August. .. T "Repeated efforts have been made by". the Dairy Board to- arrange with the Government for a discussion of the plan with the view of putting it into effect with a minimum of delay," the chairman said, ' ' but so f ar the Board has failed to get the Minister of Finance to respond. I think it is generaily agreed by dairy producers throughout the Dominion that the guaranteed price scheme which has now been in operation for 10" years, is not in their j best interests, ' ' Mr. Meredith added. ' ' That was made abundantly clear hy i I the reception given to the new plan at ! the Wellington conference. ! "The fundamental principle of the plan Is that the determination of the I price to be paid to producers will no ' longer be under the sole control of any | politieal party in office but will be de- | cided by an independent tribunal with j a Supreme Court judge as chairman. ' ' | A resolution was carried as follows: ! I "This conference of South Island j dairy producers approves the marketing i plan adopted by the Dominion Dairy ! Conference and urges the Dairy Board i to take all possible steps to have the plan put into operation without delay."