BUTTER POOL CRITICISED.

Otaki Mail, 15 May 1922, Page 1

BUTTER POOL CRITICISED.

Mr L). Maxwell, oi Taranaki, in a letter to a New Plymouth paper, says regarding the Dairy Pool, that the essence ol the scheme appears to re as follows: (l; That ait competition is to he done away with; (2) the Pool Board is to he a price-fixing hoard; (3) we shall have to rely solely on the intelligence and business capacity and necessarily restricted sources of in format ion of the Pool Board to judge or gauge the markets, or, in oilier words, we will have the judgment of two or three men appointed by the New Zealand hoard as against the ability, hu.-t----ness experience and resources of all the dairy produce linns in London, in tlie west, north, and elsewhere; (4) having lixed tlie price—no further procedure is indicated—it must always lie quite optional with tire dairy produce merchant as to whether they will take and, let- alone all of (he produce at the price fixed, or for the matter of that at any price; (5) the merchants handle produce from all sources and carry on Iheir business whether they have New Zealand produce or nut; (6) the New Zealand agents will be clone away with. His stated they cost one-half per cent, and in tueir place we are to have a company in which a million of our money will he sunk, a New Zealand hoard, staff, organisation and office, and the ‘ame again in London. 'Lite combined expenses of these, there is no doubt, wit! many times over exceed the cost of New Zealand agents and the English firms; (7) how the directors, officials, etc., of the Pool Board are likely to compare with the experienced business firms that now handle our produce can be judged by the achievements of the National Dairy Association, the Box Company, the Baton Company, etc.