DAIRY CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 12

DAIRY CONTROL

BOARD (, MR. TIMPANY’S ABSENCE COMMENTED UPON

£1,378,611 ADVANCED IN TWO MONTHS The monthly meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Producers Board yesterday was attended by all the members now in the Dominion, except Mr. W. Goodfellow, who was unable to attend owing to pressure of private business, and Mr. T. M. Timpany. In response to a telegram from the board, Mr. Timpany explained that he had just received notice of the meeting, which had been addressed to Timpany’s instead of to Woodlands.

It was explained that Mr. Timpany had given Timpany’s as his address in his last letter to the board. Mr. J. R. Thacker, acting-chairman, who presided, stated that he had intended to comment on the unjustifiable publication of confidential cablegrams by Mr. Timpany, and would have preferred to do so in Mr. Timpany’s presence. He strongly disapproved of the action Mr. Timpany had taken, which had been without his (Mr. Thacker’s) authority or sanction. Mr. Timpany’s action, he maintained, was . quite outside any business procedure, particularly as regards the cablegram from tlie Prime Minister. That cablegram had been received by the board" by courtesy of the Minister of Agriculture, and it was quite outside the bounds of etiquette and procedure to publish it. He strongly protested against such pub. lication.

Other members’ supported the chairman’s remarks. •

The secretary (Mr. T. C. Brash) objected to the suggestion that cablegrams ‘ received had been held back from the board. The Prime Minister’s cablegram had been read to the board on its receipt from the Minister of Agriculture by a special . messenger, and the Minister, following a telephone message, had sent the cablegram on without delay after receiving it.

The following resolution was passed unanimously: “That the board deprecates the publication of cablegrams and confidential information by individual members of the board, as such information and documents are not the property of individual members but of the board.”

It was reported that the dairy produce' actually shipped between September 1 and October 3, totalled 291,386 boxes of butter and 62,942 crates of cheese, in respect of which advances totalling £1,378,611 had been made. It was explained that in j oint of actual fact the money to be .distributed to the dairv community for this period would 'be greater than the figures stated, because that does rot < over the produce in cool store in New Zealand against which advances may have been made on store warrant. In spite of the lower initial advance made this season, the earnings of farmers in many districts are greater than last season, because of the greater production of this season. Advances or- jJjtfjise. Advice was receivedtfrom the London agency that merchants’would not increase the advance on cheese from the basis of 6d. per Hi, for finest. _ As the .board felt that the market price warranted a larger advance, it was decided to strongly renew