ANTI-CONTROL CAMPAIGN.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 16 March 1927, Page 7

ANTI-CONTROL CAMPAIGN.

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[To The Editor.] - Sir. — In view of the carefully prepared eampaign 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 indicates that it now wishes to do, we shall have a slump in butter. There no new feature whatever in the situation. Butter has ahvays ' been held in store by someone, but quantities have been private business. Last August there was stated to be 640,000 boxes of New Zealand butter in store. Thahwas in our winter.. Now, 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 the circumstances. Farmers must not allow themseves to be 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 short of monev. — I am etc..

Provincial Secretary Farmers' Union. Auckland Province March 13.