DAIRY CONTROL FINALE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1923, Page 4

DAIRY CONTROL FINALE

MR ISITT RAISES STORM. ! WELLINGTON, Aug. 2*l The process of getting the Dairy Export Control Rill through the House of Representatives "as an exhausting one ami members generally felt relieved H Ill'll at the end of the afternoon the la-i clause had passed the committee stay;..* and the third rend.!;!- was reached. Ry general consent there was u, !.-•• no third rending debate. and the Prime Minister ashed the H.mse ter adjourn nr di r a lew minutes lain M , ti;.-, tjuv i ..u!. 1 liut'ii ilu*. ivetk. Ilouevr i.e '■•ttllted without Mr 1 lit. •.via, raised a lively stoitil. Mr in:, who strenuously opposed tl„. compulsory principle involved in the measure, indulged in a lit;!,- propheev. \\ hieli was lit** nause ■>: all the tismhle. "I -ay that within a k*vr a,.-!:- y tin* pns-ing tiro measure in.lit cv.'i'v soap-lr.x ami trolu every ret *.tin- held liy my friends on my Iclt, the Labour Party—-and they have a tight to enum-ittte their principles volt will hear paeans of triumph that t l *,- Reform Party anti l.literal Patty an- iit)tv following in their wake and atf.pl this principle ol the right el tie majority to seize, tt-e and handle the product, of the minority. [ say again that in raising the price of but-lor-fat and nutting a lew more millions or thousands, as the ease may he, into the coffers of the farmers yon have taken a step that will absolutely rob von in future of every logical protest against similar action that the extreme Labour Party may take, urging vottr action as their precedent.” Mr lvlie raised a protest against this criticism which came, as he explained. all the harder from a lel low prohibit iotiist. Mr Holland defended the Labour Party. "When the wui was on.” he -aid, "he (Mr Liu) was prepared to allow men to 10-e Hieir lives.” Mr 1-.itl : Hear. hear. Mr 11,bland : Rut when ii is a matter o| l-itjtto'ir he will compel men to go without heel* o: spirits. Xu question of the 1 i I).■ ri \ of tile Mtlijett. hut t*. lien it (tunes to Imiter-fat apparently there is a difference hetv. cen human lift* mi l hecr and hut ter-fat. llulter-fat is sttpreme from his viewpoint. ••Refute a man thumps the desk and assumes a lmlier-thon-thou atlitude.” exclaimed Mr Atmore. "lie should preserve consistency.” lie objected to being told that when there were tlilUcullifs facing dairy producers they could not comhine. Why were they combining? Recausc they had to protect themselves from a shipping cornin' in*. Mr Armstrong rose amid suggestions that the di-t-llssion ought to close, hut lie d clared lie was not going in allow Mr Isiit to -el tiwav with lbs [abut. That member had made no pram Lai suggestion in regard to any r!aii-c in the Rill: indeed ho had dure nothing ext opt w ire In- arms and rave. ( I .all-liter ■. He should he one oi ill • las* men in public life to rni-e a tptestion of political priiicinles. heeiitise lie ivu, th.e gent !■ man uh> when he first* stood came to I’ai'liaiuenl to .siwiptul prim-iple lie had condemn, d o iiong ly that thermion. A tut.under from Air Speak.o that ties,' remarks did not a prion rto r.-hi t.. to itairv expoit coni to! brought a lively in. idem lo a close. ■!3!Bivvr»SKMa*BainMiHiHaeMWWa