CONTROL BOARD DISPUTE

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1926, Page 9

CONTROL BOARD DISPUTE

DEFENCE OF MR. WRIGHT CABLE FROM LONDON IMPORTERS. AN EXPRESSION OF CONFIDENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. A cablegram has been received by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company from five leading importers in London, who are handling by far the greater bulk of the New Zealand dairy output under control conditions, and who will c.jme into intimate contact with Mr. J. B. Wright, the London manager appointed by the Control Board. The cablegram reads: “The undersigned are informed that some members of the board have cabled informing you that all the importers, with the exception of Lovell and Christmas and Wilson and Sears, show keen hostility to Mr. Wright’s management. If so this statement is not in accord with the facts. Wilson. Sears and Lovell’s are the only allottees who are not members of the New Zealand Importers’ Association, but there was no resolution that the association has expressed dissatisfaction with Mr. Wright's management. Certainly, the undersigned, having h>l some years’ experience of Mr. Wright’, capabilities, have full confidence in him. (Signed) Davidson, Gillanders, Lane, Lovells, Mills.” In an interview in reference to the message, Mr. Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Cb- ‘ operative Dairy Company, said the cablegram demonstrated beyond all possibility of doubt the extreme length to whieh the interests opposed to control would go to misrepresent the position as it exists at the London end. Within the past few weeks a very strongly worded cablegram from the Government nominee in London, Mr. Stronach Paterson, was “disclosed” by Mr. Timpany, in which Mr. Wright’s management was condemned, and in which it was stated that the importers handling our produce had no confidence in Mr. Wright. Such a message, added Mr. Fulton, would be sent, one would imagine, only on the clearest possible evidence, that what was stated was fact. The present cablegram, however, placed it beyond doubt that what was contained in Mr. Paterson’s cable was not fact.