DAIRY CONTROL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1926, Page 11

DAIRY CONTROL.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Dairy farmers should appreciate the generous space allotted in your last two issues to Weddel and Co.’s report, though many, just now, may not find time to read it throughout, and will rest content to be deceived (unwittingly) by your headlines, characteristic, unfortunately, of persistent perversion, and much that is misleading. Weddel’s contains nothing condemnatory of the Dairy Board. A warning note is sounded that dangerous ground is being approached, but are the board not present on the spot to see these conjectural dangers? Will the Daily News only credit the being fools and knaves, or both? From Weddel’s again we have the following: “Commencing on September 1, 1926, this experiment in collective marketing will be watched with interest by everybody connected with the trade.” Quite so! The board are watching it. Then again (referring to conditions prevailing previous to .September 1) Weddel’s says: “'.Many operators who had gambled on the (seamen’s) strike were left with huge stocks of butter on their hands, and their endeavours to get out of their commitments became almost frantic in the face of the stolid indifference of most of the buyers.” Such was the paralysed state of the market when the board eame into full powers to remedy and adjust! Yet'nothing from the Daily News but harassing and heckling, when some constructive suggestion might have relieved the men so courageously battling for the welfare of the producers here! Your leader of the 19th Inst, expatiates generally on the same plane as your headlines of such great prominence, and you specially mention the undesirableness “that there should be no room for anyone to say that by holding up supplies they (the board) are attempting to squeeze the British consumer.” Now this “room” was prematurely ‘’jumped” by insidious propagandisms before the board's play commenced through a process of brutal breach of privilege, and has maintained noisy and egregious turbulence ever sifcce. As to the letter in your issue of 17th inst. signed "W. C Hickey,” I read it in that rollicking vein of fun with which, amidst the serious affairs of life, we are all disposed to relieve tension by enjoying some pantomime with our kiddies, or as a passerby is entertained by a good old street corner “Punch and Judy” show. As such the letter was most acceptable. ■ —l am. etc., BENONI WHITE. Mangorei Rd-- Nov. 20.