DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 3, 25 March 1927, Page 9

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD

r NEW POLICY BESS ABOLITION OF COMPULSION DISCUSSION NEXT WEEK (Special to THE SUN.) The question of suspending compulsory control in the marketing of New Zealand dairy produce is to be discussed by the Dairy Produce Control Board next week. Mr. Timpany has given notice of his intention to move in this direction. He is supported by Mr. W. D. Hunt.

WELLINGTON, To-day. During the coming -week the Dairy Control Board will meet in Wellington to discuss proposals for further fundamental changes in policy. It is now revealed by “The Exporter,’ ’the officila oran of the board, that at the recent meeting Mr. Timpany, a southern member, gave notice to move at the meeting, that compulsory control be ssupended in the meantime and made absolute at the end of the season, and that the board reorganise on the lines of the Meat Board and the Australian Dairy Produce Board. Mr. W. D. Hunt supports this proposal, because, he said, it was the only way out of the difficulties. Mr. Timpany said that every repon from London emphasised that they led a hostile trade, including wholeulers and retailers. The board could not live on its present policy in the face of the hostility. It was strange to him that other countries had got on, and were getting on, harmoniously with the trade. The sooner the board put itself down and withdrew and reorganised its actions the better. He did not see any ether solution for it, as it would just mean fihting one with another. There would possibly be a reduction in advances and then it would all fall on the back of the farmer.

HOSTILE TRADE

LIFTING OF BOYCOTT MR. lORNS’ STATEMENT Received 2.40 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. If the boycott had continued, the New Zealand dairying industrf complete disaster. This rfcmark was made by the London chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Producers’ Board, Mr. W. A. lorns, in a statement on the butter situation which he made to the Australian Press on the butter situation Mr. lorns said that since the abolition of price fixation, substantial progress had been made In regaining the goodwill of those large sections of the trade that had for some time past been excluded by price fixation from their normal participation in New Zealand trade. “I’m convinced,” be said, “that the great majority of ail branches of the trade are doing their utmost to assist the New Zealand proudcer in the very difficult position caused by the unfortunate policy in the past. England hast in less than a fortnigh,, been reduced by nearly half. The sales for this period exceeded the total sales for aJnuary and February.”