OVERSEAS FREIGHTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 619, 22 March 1929, Page 10

OVERSEAS FREIGHTS

ALLOCATION OF SPACE DAIRY BOARD SEEKS INDEPENDENCE (From Our Own Correspondent) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Complete independence in the making of shipping contracts is sought by the Hairy Produce Control Board. As the Act now stands the board is subservient to the Meat Producers' Board in this respect. At a meeting of the board to-day Mr. J. Mine moved, in accordance Avith a notice of motion, that the Act be amended to give the Hairy Board complete independence on the question of shipping. During a long discussion it A\*as pointed out that the Meat Board had never exercised the power given by the Act, and bad, in fact, passed a resolution that it would not act without the Hairy Board. Tlu* position arose largely from the fact that the Meat Board Act was the first on the Statute Book, and Parliament, on establishing the Hairy Board, recognised the advisability of the two boards working in conjunction in connection with shipping contracts. As an amendment, Mr. Grounds moved “that it is not desirable that any representations be made to the Government regarding amending legislation until the Government is prepared to consider all the clauses of the Act that require amendment.” On a vote being taken the amendment was lost and the original motion, slightly altered by Mr. Mine, was carried.