DISPOSAL OF DAIRY OUTPUT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1920, Page 7

DISPOSAL OF DAIRY OUTPUT.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—The latest from London Is the new scheme for marketing our dairy produce. The representative of the National Dairy ComSfiSL S r A on r?" 8 ' servl «* « home, has discovered the wholesale co-operative company, and the dairy farmers of this country nave been meeting their representatives at Snn ng3 iv heW t und<!r the Patronage of the N.ttC, through the district. Next week ai_ lalmerston North representatives are to meet and join up with this, new company, about whom they practically know nothing. 2St SF bl !? 8t outl!ne was Slven at the {lSl^! nou, i. meet!n e' the outstanding features being the appointment of a Board of !£* ' mJ" d v the wttln S »irf of the middleJS?".»i The „. bo ' lr<i '» to consist of six representatives, three to be appointed from New Zealand, and three by the W.CC,, which virtually means that the W.CC. appoint men h«.!f .. our S 00 ** to themselves. Whoever heard of such fantastic business? Then the mdd emen are to be cut out. Who are the middlemen The buyers, and the banks. I i™.i 2 pin , 1< ! n lhat " was the competition combined with the grand financial backing of the wholesale firms at Home, whose drafts aS.I. m j n « f Wt, have never yet been cushonored, that went, a long way towards the success obtained in the past. Then the banks. I would like to ask In all seriousness what the dairy factories would do for their finance If they cut the profit making business from the banks; The whole thing i?-n ab !5 r f , The dalr y farmers would be well advised to postpone any decision for twelve months, by which time, with the aid ?i. ? res9 < Bn '<*. lam sorrv to see, where debarred from the meeting), we will know a bit more about the business—l am, etc., „ . . . W. J. riiEETH. Pukearuhe, June 10.