MIXED OPINIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 8, 31 March 1927, Page 13

MIXED OPINIONS

FATE OF DAIRY BOARD CONTENTION AMONG FARMERS (From Our Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, To-day . The farming community being divided over the dairy control business, as much feeling is being shown in connection with the operations of the board as there generally is over politics. In some of the meetings being held, animated discussions evolve, and an instance of this was given a few clays ago in Taranaki on the occasion of a meeting of the Ngaire Dairy Co., when Mr. J. Corrigan, a member of the Dairy Control Board attended. Mr. Corrigan did not go to the meeting with any false illusions and he certainly met some frank critics. They did not want him there and they plainly told him so, with the result that he retired. One member present suggested that if Mr. Corrigan cared to give an address at Ngaire on Dairy Board matters he, for one, would attend, but Mr. Corrigan, before retiring, replied that he only needed insulting once. While in some districts there are those who believe that if the Control Board were removed the farmers of the Dominion would be cutting the foundation of the industry from beneath their feet, in others, again, it is felt that the board had plenty of scope to operate in order to assist farmers without trying to dictate to London merchants, who are by no means dependent upon produce from any one country. These are the contentious forces at work from one end of the "West Coast to the other, and many of those who were previously mesmerically influenced by Mr. Grounds in the case he made out, now hold contrary opinions, and consider the Dairy Control Board will best serve New Zealand if it becomes a really glorified National Dairy Association without the enforcement of the price-fixing policy. “TRAITOROUS ATTITUDE” HAMILTON, To-day. The Horsham Downs branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union passed a strong resolution desiring to make known its feeling of intense disgust at "the traitorous attitude of the Government in connection with control.”