A N attempt by the Milk Marketing Board to secure power
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to manufacture vehicles, machinery and other plant required in handling milk, has resulted in the Agricultural Machinery and Tractor Dealers Association issuing a' writ against the Board and the M ni stry of Agriculture.
This development was announced by Mr. C. Harvey, Q.C., counsel for the Association, at a public inquiry in London last week into objections to proposed amendments of the Milk Marketing Scheme.
The Association are seeking an injunction to restrain the Minister of Agriculture from giving effect to the amendments. They also ask for a declaration that the amendments giving the Board manufacturing powers do not comply with Section 9 (1) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1949.
Earlier in the proceedings, Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, had objected to the proposals so far as they concerned vehicles. He said that many specialists were making vehicles, including tankers, to customers' requirements. The Society had never received complaints from the Board about shortcomings in equipment. Manufacturers would he at a disadvantage if the Board entered into competition with them.