EXAMINATION NEEDED
LEGISLATION AND FARMERS. UNION PJRESI DENT’S VIEWS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 24. “No legislation affecting the farmer should be considered by Parliament until the Farmers’ Union has passed comment and made recommendations, said the president:* (Mr J. Livingstone, of Danuevirke), at the annual inteiprovincial conference of Farmeis Unions of the central and southern portions of flu l North Island. i The interprovincial conferences, he said, were preliminary to the Dominion Conference, which, should and must be of such importance that the people ami the Government would realise that the farmers of the Dominion, like other unions, were determined to stand solidlv as one body, conscientiously to protect the industry which meant everything for the success and progress ot New Zealand. From the head office downwards every unit of the organisation should see if there were any weaknesses to he remedied, so that in future the union would be powerful enough, ns the parliament, of farmers. to control the industry which belonged to it by heritage and just right. He urged the conference to make a strong recommendation to the Dominion Conference that the whole question of organisation be gone into more carefully/
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 190, 25 May 1938, Page 3
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