CONTROL SUPPORTED.

Shannon News, 1 April 1927, Page 3

CONTROL SUPPORTED.

RESOLUTION BY LEVIN DAIRY CO. SUPPLIERS. ONLY ONE DISSENTIENT. The following resolution, moved by Mr T. G. Vincent and seconded »y Mr J. F. Gane, was passed with but one dissentient at a meeting attended by about 200 supplieis of the Levin Cooperative Dairy Co., and presided over by Mr S. A. Broadbelt, in the Century Hall, Levin, on Wednesday noon:'That this meeting of suppliers I to the Levin Co-operativa Dairy Company regret that the majority of members of the Dairy Produce Control Board allowed themselves to be stampeded by anonymous . cablegrams from vested interests. This meeting desires to record its appreciation of the work of Messrs Grounds, Bryant and Thacker on behalf of the dairy producers. PRESS TAKEN TO TASK. "Don't believe everything that iin the papers," said Mr Vincent, in moving the resolution. " When -a cable ; is sent from the Old Country to Nov, Zealand, ask yourselves who seat it. "Was it the chairman of the Dairy Board, or someone vvho can' make u fortune out of a slump in New Zealav.r butter if it can be brought about 1 About a week ago you pi-.,bably sawin the 'Dominion' a whole column telegraphed from Auckland regarding a deputation from the Liberal Part} and-an-interview with the Hon. George Fowlds, who was stated <o be chair man of that meeting. At the bottom of the message it said that .he H n. Fowids had rung up the 'Dominion' to-say-that he,knew :io thing about tin meeting and that he had not been ir Auckland for a week. When that son of stuff comes out in the Press of thi country, what is the reason for it? 1 am glad a reporter is here. On Sat urday we were told that a hundred for eigners were .murdered in Nanking yesterday they were saved by a mira c*le. The newspapers have been out t smash dairy control. Who has bee: doing the yelling? If you throw ; stone at two dogs fighting in th. street, you will know which one is hi; because he yelps—and the men who '.re doing the yelping to-day are those wh., have bean hit by dairy control. J would like this meeting to tell the melon the Board who have been fightin, for the producers' interests that w< appreciate the stand they have taken.' WHEN FARMERS ROAST THEIR FEET. Mr J. H. Taylor said that the dair farmers were very, lucky in having ; man like" Mr Grounds to look after thei •interests. The farmers were, tied u with mortgages, -Ihoy worked lonj hours, and. after they had finished "wor: they'stock theh*-ffeet in the oven, an J optnedi-the newspaper in front of then: wh?ch r, was the capitalist press 1 of Nev Zealand which had been poisdning thmir.ds of farmers. "We have not had time to attend th meetings dealing with economic intei ests," added Mr Taylor; "and we fin. that the Press has downed the nur who hqs been fighting hard to get a' he could for us. " Mr. S. N. Verity remarked that M Grounds was p&id for his work on be . half of the industry. Mr Vincent: One of the directors o cur company is opposed to control, an he says, "Look at the big salaries the; are getting. " There is one batter am cheese merchant in'this country who i a reputed millionaire. The thing i paltry. SPECULATION IN BUTTER. ' The chairman said it gave him pleas ure to Mr Vincent's motion The speaker had been a strong suppin er of control since its inception, wit; which he was associated. The mark.' had been as bad before, and worse The position was practically governe by the men at Home who held the bub of the Dominion's produce. The N>. Zealand butter did not find its wa; on to the retail counters in the 01. Country to the extent that peopl thought. In other years, instead o the butter accumulating, it had beo. sold on being landed, at the nomimprice at that time. He did not thin' it went into consumption when it wa fold, and he did not think it went int. consumption when the fixed prices wen removed. The butter that was recent ly sold would have to be d.'-alt wit 1 again; it would be re-sold when thi prices were better. He thought tha the Control Board, or some of its mem bers, weTe ill-advised in taking th< steps they did, and that, to a large ex tent, they had "got the wind up.He did not take much notice of Pies. statements in mobt cases, because the;. were not correct. Mr Grounds was one of the most capable men the mdnstrv had had—a man of wonderful intelligence—and he had not spared himseli in any way in working in the interest.of the dairy industry. Mr Ground. had good cause for any action that hf. took If those present would read the speech of the Board's chairman, as r<v ported in the Exporter, they wouH agree that any resolution which thi meeting could pass in aid of the ton. trol Board would be a deserving .one. On being put to the meeting the mo tion was carried, Mr Verity dissenting DOMINION CONFERENCE TO BE HELD. - The chairman stated ths.t a _^ T S' : number of daily companies had said that they would not take any part ny the conference convened by Mr clair and" held in Palmerston- on Taos day. Ths directors of the Levin. Company considered that it was not a I>o minion conference fairly constituted He felt sure that a meeting- would be called at some time in the very near future for the dairy -factories of the Dominion, after the various statcmenvs for'and againit control had had. time to Bink ih. It would, in all probability, be held in Wellington. ..