"TACTLESS AND UNBUSINESSLIKE"

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 121, 12 August 1927, Page 16

"TACTLESS AND UNBUSINESSLIKE"

DAIRY BOARD CRITICISED POLICY IN LONDON •* A PPALLING, tactless and unbusinesslike" was how Mr. H. C. Cameron, for many years produce commissioner for the New Zealand Government in London, referred to the London policy of the Dairy Board, on his return to the Dominion yesterday by the Ruahine. Control, he considered, if properly conducted, was essential to the success of the dairying industry, and, assuredly, was in the interests of the farming community of the Dominion. For some years Mr. Cameron was also attached to the office of the High Commissioner in London •as immigration officer. Three years ago he retired from the Government service and is now attached to the distributing firm of Messrs. George Bowles, Nicholls and Coy., Ltd., of Smithfield. "WOULD MEAN DISASTER!” It was Mr. Cameron’s considered opinion that reversion to the old system of the disposal of dairy produce would mean disaster. Consignment through a board of producers’ representatives in London for distribution by agents, selected by the dairy factories and approved and in close association with the board, would be the proper methods of securing the best results. "Speculative buyers of factory outputs f.o.b. in the Dominion," suggested Mr. Cameron, "use their purchases to further their own ends. They have no interest in the welfare of the factories." Commenting upon the attitude of Mjr. Stronach Paterson, Mr. Cameron declared that he had been unjustly blamed for antagonism toward the board. “Mr. Paterson foresaw, as many experienced men, the result of such tactless and autocratic management- and in an endeavour to stem disaster, strongly protested against its continuance,” declared Mr. Cameron. Had he not done this, he added, Mr. Paterson would not have been carrying out the duties entrusted to him by the Government.