MR. IORNS’S LAST WORD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 11

MR. IORNS’S LAST WORD

“MR. WIGHT HAS GIVEN NO PROOFS” “DROP THE QUESTION” Press Associatton WELLINGTON, Today. The chairman of the Dairy Board, ]SIr. W. A. lorns, says he is sorry to sec Mr. W. G. Wight is ignorant of the history of the production of the standard contracts. Mr. Wight's challenge to say ■where he retracted is really amusing in view of the fact that Mr. lorns did not say he had retracted. Mr. lorns had stated that Mr. Wight receded from his argument that the exporters intended to combine and foi'ce the contracts on the producers, and from his further argument that the hoard approved the finest grade as the basis in the cheese contract. He ( had dodged putting up any proof as he j had evaded the suggestion that he put I up a proof of the statement that the I producers would Ihse. heavily if the finest was made the basic grade in the butter contract, or the proof that the 13r>,000 boxes, which represented the South Island’s total export of butter last season, could be sold at the same price f.o.b. for first gra.de. As for the finest, Mr. Wight continually side-stepped putting up any proof for his main arguments, and no doubt would continue to do so, and under these circumstances Mr. lorns proposed now to drop the question and leave the judgment of the producers to value any such statements.