STORMY MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 13

STORMY MEETING

AUCKLAND DAIRYMEN

STILL DISSATISFIED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, April 9.

Counsels forconstitutional procedure! prevailed in,the face:of advocacy for direct action at a stormy, meeting, of 150 producers when the decision of the Auckland Milk Council to increase the price of milk to tits'supplier's, at the farm gate, from": 9jd to lid a gal- , lon s for the ; winter months,, was received. ; ; ■.'■;.'?: :''(:.''"' ■'■'^■■y':A:}/;'' i , V"' '■''. ; To •cover.costs of production suppliers olmilk to the council:'sought a payment \of one shilling during: the ■winter, months. ■ After about 'twenty producers had retired from the' meeting a motion; stating that: rib".direct action should. be taken until such time as all constitutional means jbacL.v been exhausted was adopted, arid: ii: was de-; tided to express the opinion that producers: were .absolutely dissatisfied with the price tliat was fixed, and that every endeavour should be made to have the price brought up to the figure: submitted: by the producers to the. council. ■■ . ; .-••■ ;.. ■ , : The retail prices of milk in Auckland will not be changed a"s a result of the council's decisiori,' but' there will be a slight increase in .the retail" price of cream. . - : .■^''■' '■: '%';:. ,,:..''; in. the week. It was that dissatisfaction. :ori p_art-,of dairymen with the ; milk,''prices' fixed by: the Auckland 'Metrbpplitan. Mill: Council threatened .to come to a head. It was stated that if, the council failed' to increase the.price paid tp the dairymen they would, those 'in touch .^ith the situation.believed, send their milk to dairy factories, with the result thatsomethingan the nature pi.a milk fam-. me would develop in Auckland. :j-