PRIMARY PRODUCERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 10

PRIMARY PRODUCERS.

UNITED ORGANISATION URGED

VALI'K OK ( ()\.s(Hj|).\T|ov

(By Tolosrnph —Prp«s Association.)

CHRISTf'HI RCH. Thursdav

A conicuMice of all prinuiiy producers' organisations in North ( ant'erburv is to b»- culled iniincdialelv by tlw Nort'll Canterbnrr branch of ' th« New Zealand rtuineiV inion to dis,u«s the formation of a united primary producer!*' organisation. This wa,. de.iiied upon a"fter a mnjr <liscu~sn.il in committee at the North Canterbury conference ~f tluunion to-dav. •

Other provincial exerntivea will be notified of the proposal, which was described at the conference as extremely urgent. It was the ciilniiuation of man'v reterence- to the need f,, r ,)„, ~n . i iU: r consohdalion of interests of all primary producers. * J

The Dominion [.resident. y\,-, \y \y Mulliolland. blamed the lack of orjanisiitioii lar-e| v „„. n< .j,|,.,. t (lf tll rM)il)fr interest* by the l.'overninent. which, he nil id. had originally taken office as a •'pro-farmer" Covei iimeiit. H» a-ked how if «as that this <Jo vein ment had 'allied through its j.idicy in the interest* of other seelions ot the community, yet had taken no effective measures in the interests of farmers.

The Government certainlv had been instrumental in bringing about the farmers, present position, he said, but there the position was indicated in a recent statement that there wernjr2.~>o,o(M) trade unionists and 2.'».1H)0 members of the Fnnners' Inion.

The conference, reaffirmed a resolution passed last year as follows: —

"That provision Iμ- made in the constitution fur the affiliation of all organisations or association* of primary producers with tin* New Zealand Farmers' I'nioii, thus forming a complete primary producer*' federation; such organisations to hnve. direct representation, with local hrnnclien, and thenceforward with provincial and Dominion executives."