DISSATISFIED FARMERS

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 73, 27 March 1920, Page 13

DISSATISFIED FARMERS

AUCKLAND BODY CRITICISED. rFrom Our Own Correspondent.! TE ATVVAMUTU, -Friday. The Te Awanrutu sub-provincial executive of the Xew Zealand Farmers' Union has passed stringent criticism on the provincial executive at Auckland. Memiber3 feel very 'keenly on the question of representation-, it -being considered that a. new executive, composed of subpro rinctal districts, should be appointed. This view is borne out by Hairini, Kihikihi, Pirongia, and Korakonui farmers. At a meetin,rr of the executive for the district held here to-day, it was decided to urge that the provincial executive be composed of a representative from each of the nine sub-provine'.al districts of the Auckland province. This resolution will •he sent to the Auckland body as a remit shortly. I Complaint has been also made that there have been anomalies created by th* use of the name "Farmers' Union" in a trading firm's business in Auckland. The union decided to take steps in the matter. It was frankly stated that if the farmers of the Auckland province did not move, rand pay subscriptions the Farmers' Union would not be in ex-1 istence in a year. Reference was made to a decision of Pirongia farmers to form a dairy farmers' union, and this, it was considered, if run on proper lines, would "kill" the union. Reorganisation! was necessary.