“RANK INSINCERITY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 April 1927, Page 13

“RANK INSINCERITY”

DAIRY DISCUSSIONS TRENCHANT CRITICISM MR. DYNES FULTON SPEAKS OUT “All the talk at the Palmerston meeting in the Press about ’bridging the gull* and ‘peace and goodwill,’ etc. is so much moonshine and the rankest insincerity.” This remark was made yesterday by Mr. Dynes Fulton. Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company in a criticism of the Palmerston North Dairy Conference. In the course of his remarks he said that the meeting had turned out exactly as lie had expected. The number of companies represented was only a small proportion of the industry and the opinion expressed could therefore not be taken as being in any sense the general feeling of the producers. In the Dominion there were some 403 companies, he said, and the voting on the only resolution on which a count was taken showed that only 81 were in favour of the policy enumerated by the convener of the meeting. “THE NOISY MINORITY” “With regard to the attitude taken up by the Dairy Control Board at its meeting yesterday,” added Mr. Fulton. “I may say that although disappointed, I am not altogether surprised at the decision. The noisy minority has for the time being got itself into a position where, with the valuable assistance it is receiving, it is dominating the situation. It is now obvious to its interests that the agitation should cease. “How this policy has been applied by the present preachers of peace, when after the meeting last April, at the will of the producers the representatives were definitely established, is too fresh in the minds of the producers to need any comment from me.” Peace and goodwill, continued Mr. Fulton, were then unknown to the noisy minority, who had lost no opportunity of fermenting disturbance in the minds of the producer, of creating division and dissension in the industry, and generally raising a clamour that was calculated to serve as a cloak under which they could, with assistance before mentioned, work their will. Mr. Fulton spoke of the gross injustice to the producers, of the present disastrous position, and “of the square deal that the producers must have.” “In the meantime,” he concluded, “we have the very cold comfort of knowing that our produce is at the tender mercies of the speculators until at least June next.”