MARKETING BOARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 14

MARKETING BOARDS

OVERHAUL1 NECESSARY

(By Telegraph— Press Association.)

• ' WANGANUI, March 26. "Over the past five years there have been set up many marketing and-con-trol boards, all'at the expense'of the exporters, and these were designed to improve marketing conditions and thus improve prices," stated tho annual report of the Wanganui Employers' Association, adopted at tho annual meeting tonight. :

"All these boards, wo have been told, were essential, in order that producers might obtain the best marketing, yet, strangely enough, since these boards have commenced operations, prices have drifted from, bad to, worse. If one were to suggest that the boards had failed in their purpose, the Teply would assuredly be that, but for the boards, marketing conditions would have been worse. True, the' boards have secured substantial reduction in shipping freights, but there is a feeling that their activities have antagonised merchants in England to an extent that the marketing conditions brought about have deprived producers of any saving in freights, and even more.

"A general stocktaking and oyerhau lin regard to New Zealand's export trade appears to become each year more and more a necessity, and we are inclined to .the view that the sooner" it is undertaken by an impartial commission of experts, independent of sectional interests, the better for the country asa whole."

, The report emphasised the necessity of finding new markets, and contended that more should be done in this direction by the Department of Industries and Commerce. "The difficulty today appears to be that the money is sufficient only to enable the Department to toy with the problem, rather than seriously tackle it with 'solution'>,as) the goal," tho report stated.