FARMERS' INTERESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 7

FARMERS' INTERESTS.

POLICY OF THE UNION. DAIRY POOL SUPPORTED. j fßy Telegraph.—Press Association.) I MASTERTOX, Wednesday. ' j The co-operation of farmers in order -J to protect their own interests wae the •; policy of the Farmers' Union ac enun- • i ciated 'by the Dominion president, Mr. ■i W. J. Poison, to an enthusiastic meet- " I ing of members to-day. He pointed out ' j the necessity for better marketing, chipI ping, and banking facilities which could only be brought about by co-operation. . fie explained what had happened in 1 J America in connection with marketing. > i The Farmers' Union there had received ' ; an enormous impetus. It had 8,000,000 - members and had been granted by Con- - gress the rights of compulsory pooling. ■ ! He etrongly emphasised the necessity for -1 compulsion, and declared the weakness i of the present Meat Export Control Act • was the responsibility placed on the t shoulders of the board to decide whether - compulsion should be applied or not. i He agreed that the board 'had made a I good beginning on small matters, but ■ they could not eatisfy the producers ' until complete compulsion was esta'bi limbed. Continuing, be dealt at length with tiie proposed dairy pool, strongly sup- ■ porting the proposal. He urged that with 12.0U0 miles of handicap and a 1 strong probability, as the result of the 1 (lenoa Conference, of Siberia's early re- • turn to the butter trade the most com--1 plete organisation should be undertaken to enable us to maintain our position. The union was strongly supporting the dairy pool. 1 j Mr. Poison dealt with the question of 'jcosis, but characterised the Bolshevik ■ j proposals to reduce rente and interests 1 I compulsorily as double-edged and lifcely to destroy all confidence in the country. ' The union was Out for an agricultural banking system based on the German ' system. Ho quoted President Taft-'e adilrers, and explained how the eystem had wen adopted in the United States, and what it had done to provide c-heaper . and more plentiful money for the pro- , ducerg in the countries which had . adopted it. lie explained the Farmers' . i Union shipping proposals, including the . I appointment cf a shipping board, and .said that it was useless to send trade commiseionora io the East without shipping. Present freights were prohibitive, ( and we must follow the example of . J America. Holland, awl Japan and sub3i- . I disc shipping if we desired to partici- . I pate. Ho dealt at come length with , the work of the union in connection . with dairying matter?, and explained . that hall" the members of the union were* dairymen. He concluded with an .(appeal for complete unity among all [ I classes of the farming community at . [this critical stage in our existence."