THE PRODUCE COMMANDER

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 7

THE PRODUCE COMMANDER

OPKVIONS OV :SJE .TAJtES WILSON. 'Tteferencc to the commandeer of.pro- ' (Kite, ami the inent.ami shipping questions, was made by Sir James Wilson in i lie course of a speech at the annual, dinner of the. Now Zealand Farmers' ■.Co-opsrativs Distributing Company, Ltd.,

yesterday. . . ; Regarding the commandeer of produce, (Sir James .AYilson j?aitl he. did not Ivnow ■■whether, it was the intention of.. the. : British Government to 'take our', produce, but if such was the intention there was w> doubt that the producers should.receive full value for their produce. It

respect to wool there was not the slight- : est doubt thnt.we'ivew losing -very lurga j Kiwis of money. Now that .the 'war .vras ) over, ho thought it would be better if ' oiii , wool were sold on the open market. .' Uraling' with meat, He .-wklOie doubled ; ' whether it would ue advisable''tq newpt

, ! n further offer if it was made. 'I'he' ! matter would require the most careful consideration. There was talk that the. Argentine and Austral in would bo sending their butter and checso to the British Government. If ihis was the oiiEi , . there was the possibility of New Zealand being loft out, ant! in this case it miiht bo necessary to consider a fur--1 th«r Vale. ■. ■ ■ ' Tins shipping ti'iißstion, Sir Jannjs Wil- ' eon considered of tlic greatest imiioit»ncc. The whole drift of B'.itish people was lowards Ihe combinarion of . big conipanier, and so far as he could sso freights wore likely, to be. high. When they got. back Jotlic old standard they ■would have, to consider the m:";tro'i whether they 'would have « (.'oivpany nf their own or a company assisted by the State.