FARMERS CONFER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 242, 26 July 1935, Page 6

FARMERS CONFER

MID-CANTERBURY EXECUTIVE.

MEAT BOARD REPRESENTATION.

REORGANISATION OF UNION. The Mid-Canterbury Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union met this morning, the president (Mr Raymond Oakley) presiding over a good attendance. In connection with 1 the proposal to form a Barley-growers’ Board, the president said he had attended a meeting of groAvers at Wellington, and that meeting had appointed a deputation to wait on the brewers, who hadstated that the NeAV Zealand crop had not been so extensive last year as previously, and importations Avere brought from Australia.* Avhere a much brighter quality of barley Avas gvoAvn. The New Zealand barley Avas not so good! for the biwing of beer. The NeAV Zealand Meat Producers’ Board wrote that the Executive’s request for a separate delegate to the electoral committee Avould be considered at its next meeting.

The President stated that in Wellington he had been given some supr port for the proposal put up by the Executive. In regard to the election of delegates to the electoral committee of the Meat Board, the North Canterbury Executive Avrote asking the Mid-Can-terbury Executive to support Messrs G. C. Warren (Farmers’ Union), E. Hay flSheepowners’ Union) and C. G. Jarman (A. and P. Association) in accordance with the arrangement betAvcen the tAvo executives for alternative nomination, this being the year in which the Mid-Canterbury voters would vote for the North Canterbury nominees. The Canterbury and Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Associations Avrote accepting the Executive’s invitation to attend a conference in Ashburton on export meat questions. The Little River Association Avrote asking if it could take part in the conference. It Avas agreed to confine the representation to the North, Mid and South Canterbury executives and the Timaru, Canterbury and Ashburton A. and P. Associations in the meantime, it being pointed out that the conference would be merely a preliminary move in a step that had big possibilities. It Avas decided that the executive s standing committee should represent the and that the conference should be hold on Tuesday, August 6, commencing at 10.30 o’clock. The Bominion Executive forwarded details of the proposals for the reorganisation of the union. The president outlined the soheme as propounded at the recent conference at Wellington. The Bominion Executive had up to now comprised 38 delegates, but this number Avould ibe greatly reduced. No objection had been made to the proposals, though the neAV grouping of provinces had meant the Joss of old provincial names. The new Bominion Executive, of 14 members, included Mr P. J.'O’Regan as the representative of the neAV Canterbury and Westland province. The old executives Avould retain their identity and representation at the annual conference as in the past. A report on the deliberations of the annual conference Avas given by Mr Franks, avlio represented the executive. A vote of thanks Avas accorded Mr Franks.

Aspects of the meat industry were dfealt with by Mr D. J. Shea (general manager of the Canterbury Frozen Meat and Dairy Produce Expert Company, Ltd.) in an address to the executive'this afternoon. The address was delivered in camera.