FARMERS' UNION SPLIT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 15, 28 October 1932, Page 7

FARMERS' UNION SPLIT

AUCKLAND BODY'S ATTITUDE SEPARATE ORGANISATION. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 27. For some time there has been a marked diversity of opinion between' the'Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and the Auckland Provincial Executive over some matters contained in "Farming First," the official organ of the latter body. At a recent meeting of the Dominion Executive, a committee, consisting of Messrs W. W. Mulholland' (chairman), H. E. Blvde, D. Dickie, €. C. Jackson, W. Morrison and E. H. Murney, considered the position, and presented the following report to the executive meeting today: —' ''We have discussed with representatives of Auckland, Messrs A. A. Rosa and R. H. Feisst, the continually recurring domestic differences caused fundamentally by sharply .divergent ideas as to how best to press to finality the decisions of the Dominion conference and executive. The discussion was at-all times «onducted in a most friendly manner, and all parties fully realised the gravity of the situation and the importance of any decisions which might be reached. "It was found impossible to come to any understanding with the Auckland representatives which gave any promise of being final. The committee, therefore, with very great regret, recommends that Mr Ross's suggestion. that the Auckland Provincial Executive be allowed to form a separate organisation, for whose policy the Farmers' Union will be in no way responsible, shall'be accepted, and that he be authorised to inform the Auckland Provincial Executive that the Dominion Executive would facilitate in a friendly way such separation. The basis for separation should be decided at the earliest possible moment." The report was unanimously adopted by the Dominion Executive, and will be considered by the Auckland Executive at the next meeting.