CO-OPERATION NECESSARY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 167, 17 July 1941, Page 11

CO-OPERATION NECESSARY

ALIi PRIMARY PRODUCERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The necessity for several sections of primary producers' organisations co-operating closely for the purpose of promoting the best interests of all producers was affirmed by the annual Dominion conference of the Farmers' Union to-day, when a remit from Otago on the subject was carried.

The objective of complete unity should not be lost sight of, said Mr. Mulholland. It was urgently necessary to get a very much closer linkup of primary producers' organisations, and this, apart from any consideration of the greater weight of opinion they would be able to bring to bear, just for the ordinary everyday activities which they had to carry out under war conditions.

The chairman of the Dairy Board, Mr. W. E. Hale, emphasised the need for a co-ordinating head to primary industrial organisations. The principle of the proposal was right and that was all they should be concerned with at present.

The conference also expressed the conviction that the future welfare of the primary industries of New Zealand was dependent on better and closer organisation of farmers and farmer organisations, and strongly urged that every primary producers' annual conference and annual meeting should agree to the early establishment of a farmers' federation.