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“CLAIMS CITY WAS DECEIVED,” The Province (Vancouver). March 13, 1931. Page 2. ---- City Solicitor Tells of Written Promise to Restrict Milk Act Amendments. --- ISLAND DAIRIES FIGHT --- VICTORIA, March 13 - Deliberate deception in connection with the production of the Dairy Products Adjustment Act amendments is charged by representatives of Vancouver City Council. J. B. Williams, city solicitor for Van-couver, asserts that he has documentary evidence to back up his statement that an endeavor was made to deliberately deceive the city of Vancouver. He carried a letter received from an official of the adjustment committee, since the milk issue was raised in the present session, saying that the only amendments that would be sought would be In connection with ice cream and bringing into conformity with the Vancouver health regulations, provisions of standards and classification of milk.

Despite this official letter, the amendments, some dozen in number, when presented before the agricultural committee, reveal that not only control of ice cream is being sought, but also direct control of butter, cheese, evaporated milk and cream, milk powder and any other milk product that may later be designated.

ISLAND DAIRIES UNITE Independent dairies and creameries of Victoria and Vancouver Island have united in opposition to any form of compulsory co-operation in the milk- producing industry. On behalf of eleven milk distributors and butter manufacturers of Victoria. Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, Frank H. Partridge interviewed the committee. and presented the following resolution:

"We the undersigned co-operative and private dairy concerns of Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands, wish to state that we are strongly opposed to the introduction of so-called 'compulsory’ co-operation. We believe it to be in the best interests of the dairy industry that co-operation be voluntary on the part of those concerned.

“The milk of human kindness sours a bit when distributors slash the price paid farmers. Texas producers were recently cut from 20 to 16.6 cents per gallon and indicated their feelings by dumping milk into the gutters.”

“Five-year Plan to Improve Cattle,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 7, 1932. Page 3. ---- British Columbia Dairymen Embark on a New Scheme ---- CLOVERDALE BC - British Columbia dairymen have embarked upon a five-year plan for the improvement of their herds. 

Need for independent aggressive effort to attain this objective was emphasized at the recent convention held here of the dairy industry representing an annual production worth approximately $13,000,000. 

The dairymen brought with them reports of unusual conditions in the industry. Notwithstanding difficulties In the form of low prices, high taxes, and worries over litigation in connection with the famous British Columbia milk legislation, they prepared to go ahead with a program or herd improvement to extend over at least five years. 

“Something more than co-operation to needed to pull the Industry, through," declared President R. U. Hurford of Courtenay. "Co-operation has been held out so long as the cure-all of all farmers' troubles that I am tiring of the mere mention of the word. 

"I have every sympathy with the views of the dairy man who has rent, heavy Interest charges, and taxes, to meet and who breaks away from his co-operative association from the sheer difficulty of making ends meet at the moment.