THE DAIRY POOL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1922, Page 4

THE DAIRY POOL.

As was to be expected? the Dairy Pool Bill is being used in the present political campaign as a stick with which to strike the. Government; hence we have the Member for Taranaki claiming that “if he had done nothing else but oppose the Bill, that alone should entitle him to the vote of every producer in Taranaki.” It is true he took an active part against the Bill, but he only acted as the mouthpiece for others, to whom he should give due credit. We do not, however, feel that he, or those associated with him, in his efforts to defeat the Bill, deserves the credit he claims. Admittedly, the Bill Was defective and went too far; but that it was in the right direction, events in the near future, in our humble .judgment, will profe. There is no gainsaying that there is great scope for improvement in the shipping, supervising, advertising and marketing of our produce, and simply io block an effort to put things on a better footing for producers is not an achievement of which anyone who professes a regard for the interests of producers should be proud. Far better for Mr. Smith and the others behind him to have co-operated with the Committee and devised a workable scheme satisfactory to all parties. The time will come when the heat and feeling engendered by the recent controversy having died down, the producers will see that the scheme for the improvement of conditions, however crude and unsatisfactory in some respects it may have been, was put forward to help them--not to hurt them—and that the promoters were their friends and not their enemies, as they are being represented to-day in this and other electorates, largely for political purposes.