“INTOLERABLE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 10

“INTOLERABLE”

FARMERS OBJECT TO COST OF DAIRY BOARD WANT SALARIES REDUCED Special to THE SUA TV ELLIX G TOX, Tliursday. "That the personnel cf the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board contatives only* a/Td he* salaries and fees paid be considerably reduced/’ The above remit was carried at a meeting of the executive of the Xew Zealand Farmers’ Union. In moving the remit, Mr. X'. Campbell said the board was costing too much. They were not suggesting any reduction in the levy, but were suggesting that the levy could be spent in a better manner. The present body was x.ot functioning in the best interests of the producers. He was satisfied that if the board shipped only from the main Torts instead of from the minor ports as well it would be able to reduce the freights very considerably. The producers of the country did not want"to do away with control, but they wanted to ensure that level-headed men were appointed to the board. There was no need for Government representatives on the board. Mr. J. G. Anderson said both the Dairy Board and the Meat Board had financed themselves. The chairman, Mr. TV. J. Poison, M.P., said he welcomed the remit. He was in favour of one board doing the work which was being carried out by two boards at present. Mr. TV. A. lorns, of the Dairy Board, had gone Home to arrange shipping contracts, and he had been followed a few #:vs later bv Mr. D. Jones, of the Meat Board, on exactly the same mission. Mr. H. M. Rushvvorth, M.P.. said the Government had agreed to finance the Meat Board in a certain eventuality, and that was why the Government insisted on being represented. The same thing did not apply to the Dairy Board, however. Mr. Poison said the remit suggested new legislation, and it might be a dangerous thing to lay the Dairy Control Act on the floor of the I-iouse. It might be torn to pieces, and no doubt would be. Mr. O. P. Lynch said the Manawatu district was heartily tired of the conditions as they existed at present. Mr. Campbell said lie would be quite prepared to risk letting the Act go

before Parliament again, as the pres ent conditions were intolerable.