GUARANTEED PRICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 33, 7 August 1936, Page 10

GUARANTEED PRICE

"WELL LET DOWN"

TARANAKI DAIRYMEN

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.

Dissatisfaction with the guaranteed price, and Government control of dairy produce, is becoming more appar.ent in Tarartaki. The first expression of opinion from any Taranaki organisation officially representative of the industry came from the South Taranaki executive of the Farmers' Union, which protested against the commandeering of dairy produce and the inadequacy of the price in' view of increasing costs, and appointed a delegation to confer with the Taranaki federation of dairy factories, with a view to further action.

"As a branch of such an important dairy centre we should express an opinion on guaranteed prices," said Mr. J. S. Tosland. "We have heard such a great deal about the so-called guaranteed price and what we would be able to do that we naturally thought we would get Is 4d for butter and. Is Cd for cheese; but the butter price is no more than what is being paid this year, and the cheese price is little better than this year's payments. We have been well let down. One shilling and twopence is not an adequate price for cheese.

"By taking over our dairy produce the Government is taking away individual rights," proceeded Mr. Tosland. "We farmers, who with our parents have built up the industry from nothing to its present magnitude, are capable of marketing our produce. To take the produce away .'• from- the farmer at such price is an insult, arid we should not sit down and take it quietly."

The following motion was carried: "That in the opinion of the executive there was no need for the Government to commandeer produce, and that the price offered is inadequate to meet the increased costs of manufacture and production.".