DAIRY CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 11

DAIRY CONTROL

LONDON CONFIDENCE IN MR. WRIGHT Br Telegraph.—Press Association Hamilton, November 22. A cablegram has been received as under by the New Zealand Co operative Dairy Company from five leading importers in London, who will be concerned in handling the great bulk of the New Zealand dairy output under control conditions, and who will come into intimate contact with Mr. J. B. Wright, London manager, appointed by the Control Board:— “The undersigned are informed that some members of the board have cabled you that all importers, with the exception of .Lovell and Christmas and Wilson Sears, show keen hostility to Mr. Wright’s management. If so, this statement is not in accord with the facts. Wilson Sears and Lovells are the only allottees who are not members of the New Zealand Importers’ Association. but no resolution of that association has expressed dissatisfaction with Mr. Wright’s management. Certailllv the undersigned, having . had some’ rears’ experience of Mr. Wright's capabilities have full confidence in him. — (Signed) Devidson, Gillanders, Lane, Lovells, Mills.” In an interview in reference to the message, -Mr. D. Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, said that the cablegram demonstrated beyond all doubt the extreme length to which interests opposed to control would go to misrepresent the position at the London end. Within the past few weeks a very strongly-worded cablegram from the Government nominee in London, Mr. S. Paterson, was “disclosed” by Mr. Timpany, in which Mr. Wright’s management was condemned, and which stated tiiat importers handling our produce had no confidence in him. Such a message, added Mr. Fulton, would be sent, one would imagine, only on the clearest possible evidence that what was stated was a fact. The present cablegram, however, placed beyond doubt that w’hat was contained in the earlier one was not a fact. AN AUCKLAND RESOLUTION. The following resolution was carried by the executive of the Farmers’ Union, Auckland province, at its last monthly meeting" This meeting, representative of Auckland province farmers, expresses strong disapproval of the methods employed by interested parties to nullify the wishes of the Dominion's dairy farmers in their desire and efforts to stabilise marketing, and urges upon all farmers the need for standing fast and giving the Dairy Control Board a fair trial?’