INDIGNANT DAIRYMEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2036, 26 September 1908, Page 2

INDIGNANT DAIRYMEN.

A GREAT INDUSTRY THREATENED.

MORAL: SUPPORT' THE OPPOSITION.

[Special to “Times.”]

AVELLINGTON, Sept. 25. The country settlers in many parts of th*e Dominion anneal- to be up in arms over the new dairy regulations, and members are in receipt of numerous letters and telegrams bitterly complaining about them. In the New Plymouth district the - position is acute. At a meeting at Okato one of the speakers said the whole matter was unnecessary another tax on the farmer. If the balance-sheet, grading notes, and sale reports of the factories were considered, it would be found that New Zealand butter, without absurd legislation, was competing successfully with the produce of other countries. If these regulations were insisted on tho dairy industry would collapse. Another speaker said that- he had consistently supported the Liberal Administration, but the inspectors’ restrictions and regulations which were now being imposed on the main industries of tho colony were leading to the ruin of the Government and the returning of tile land to its original conditions. There was only one remedy, namely, for farmers to unite as one mail and go boldly for the Opposition before it was too late. Other speakers referred to the subject in still more emphatic terms, and a series of condemnatory resolutions were passed.