COMPENSATED PRICE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 86, 21 January 1938, Page 6

COMPENSATED PRICE

NO INTEREST IN ASHBURTON. ATTITUDE OF FARMERS’ UNION. No further action is to be taken by the Mid-Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union in regard to the compensated price campaign. The president (Mr L. O'. Oakley), at a meeting of the executive to-day, reported that he had told one of the officers of the campaign that it was no use holding a further meeting in Ashburton. The organiser of the Compensated Price Campaign advised that Mr Furniss would give an address on February 27 or 29. The secretary (Mr W. H. Amos) said that the dates were not suitable either to farmers or the Ashburton Cooperative Dairy Factory Company. The president said that feeling in Ashburton toward the compensated price was very lukewarm. He had suggested that there should be no persistence in forcing on to the community something it did not want. The price was to benefit dairy farmers. If the dairy farmers did not do their bit, why should the executive go any further with the matter?

Mr Amos said it was not possible to get a meeting on a Saturday. The president said that no reply had been received from the dairy company to a previous invitation to attend a compensated price meeting. "Mr Furniss intends to be here next Saturday,” lie said. "What are we going to do about it?”

The president’s action was endorsed, and it was decided not to take any further steps regarding the proposed meeting.