DAIRY CONTROL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2860, 19 March 1925, Page 3

DAIRY CONTROL.

* ANSWERS TO CRITICS. Wellington, Last Night. The Hon. D. McLeod said he had noted that he was being taken to task by the executive of the Association of Chambers of Commerce in lcgai’d to his remarks in an address at Geraldine.

“Just before beginning my address at Geraldine,” said Mr McLeod, “I had handed to me a circular issued by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, which, among other tilings, contained the following: “The world has had an extraordinary example of the disastrous failure of this class of Socialistic legislation in Russia. It seems obvious that no responible Labour Government would to-day repeat this, but the extreme Labour Party will welcome such an Order-in-Council from (lie Reform Government as substantial contributions to the future Communistic regime” and, after reading tin's to tlie meeting, I went on to say that I did not beleve that such a view was subscribed to by live per cent of the commercial men of New Zealand. If it was, then all I could say was that I felt sorry for them. As a settler on the land, I knew full well the valued services rendered to the primary producers by commercial men in the past history of the Dominion, hut such statements as that just read would, if generally subscribed to by commercial men, bring about Bolshevism quicker than anything I know.”