DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3614, 17 March 1927, Page 1

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

All'. A. E. Robinson, Auckland Provincial Secretary of the N.Z. Farmers Union, forwards the following:—

“Dear Sir, —In view of the care--fully prepared campaign to smash the Dairy Control Board, may I remind dairy farmers that the Board was formed to regulate supplies and! that this can only be done by feeding the surplus of certain months to the leanness of others? If the Board weakens and'endeavours to “quit,’’ as the Trade is fighting to force it to do and as the recent rapid drop in prices apparently indicate that it now wishes to do, we shall have a slump in butter. There is no new feature whatever in the situation. Butter has always been held in store by someone, but quantities have been private business. Last August there was stated to lie 040,000 boxes of Mew Zealand butter in store. That was in our winter. Mow, at the height of the season, dairy company directors at Hamilton estimate the holding in London at 300,000 with the supply rapidly falling, not remarkable in all llie circumstances. Farmers must not allow themselves to he rushed. This agitation is being rigged and as the London Agency has on it men who are a source of weakness to the Board, farmers must insist on letting the year go by and then see how they fare. This is the only wise policy. Propaganda. cablegrams have been greatly used by the Anti-Control people who are not sliofit of money.”