ORGANISATION OF PRODUCERS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 12

ORGANISATION OF PRODUCERS

♦ UNION OF ALL SECTIONS PROPOSED ’ INVITATION ACCEPTED BY COMMERCIAL GARDENERS (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, July 20. “So far we farmers in New Zealand have not considered it advisable to do this, no matter what we might do in the future,” said the president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union (Mr W. W. Mulholland) when he stated to the Dominion Council of Commercial Gardeners in Wellington to-day that the Western Australian organisation embracing all primary producers was definitely active from a political party viewpoint. One of the urgent needs of the time was an organisation fully representative of the various branches of primary production. Each section, such as commercial gardeners, had its particular problems, but it was necessary that ail should be linked together on major problems. Western Australia had an organisation which seemed to offer a model on which they could build in New Zealand. There was a central organisation to which all primary producers belonged. Each joined also the sectional organisation concerned with his own industry and its domestic matters. In some cases they ran their own marketing organisation. The chairman of each subsidiary body was a member of the central board which dealt with the general policy, such as rail charges,

taxation, and so on. In New Zealand they should use the existing organisations and find a central body. It would be folly to disband an organisation such as that of the conference and replace it with another. His union had offered other primary producers' organisations the right to nominate members to sit on its Dominion executive. This was a tentative measure while the way was being felt to a more satisfactory and complete organisation which would give primary producers the opportunity to speak with one voice when necessary. The conference decided to recommend the executive to appoint a representative on the executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in accordance with the invitation.