"OLD MEN'S HOME"

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 171, 21 August 1929, Page 2

"OLD MEN'S HOME"

Per Press Association.

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD P1LLORIED. outspoken criticism at pahiatua.

PAHIATUA, Last night. Some picturesque allusions to ihe Control Board ivere inade at tlie annual jneeting of suppliea-s to the N'orth Tiraumea Company, Kohinui,.- during a discussion on pricesf- Mr Brechin said lie believed tlie markct to he hardening quite definitely. Wliat was helping to depress prices was tlie fact that the Control Board was constantly allowing three or four boats to nnload at London at tbe same timo. Mr F. T. Ladd : Jlo you -think the Control Board is cloiiig us any. good at the present time? Mr Ba-echin: Not at all.- Xt is doing us a lot of.harm. , The board, he added, was a "sort of old men's hoine." They liad a spectacled chairman earning £75U per annum, phis expenses, runiiing up and down the countrjq and otlier. members of the board receiving £250 per. anuum. The board, said Mr Brechin, was coiitrolled by conniiercial and Governjnent interests. It was the • larmer who was paying for tliose organisations tliat were being built up. There was notliing much in it for anybody but the people who had jobs. He instanced the delay in getting produce away from the D'ominieri. The North Tiraumea Company in one' case liad had some clieese on a boat that was 82 days on the ccaSt of New Zealand; yet tlie farmer. still tolerated this state of . affairs. They wero a j;long sufl'ering crowd"- was, liis comment.