FEDERATED FARMERS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24801, 15 February 1946, Page 6

FEDERATED FARMERS

FIRST CONFERENCE THIS MONTH

<P ,£- > „ WELLINGTON, Feb; 13. The New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation are expected 'to complete their active existence within two months. It may be some years before their affairs are completely wotfnd up, but to all .intents and purposes their long service to the farming industry will be concluded, and of farmers’ organisations of all types will be included in the new organisation, Federated- Farmers of New Zealand.

TTie first national ■ conference of Federated Farmers will be held on February 28, after conferences on the previous day of the various produce sections, namely meat and wool, dairy produce, agricultural and grain growers, and commercial gardeners. The combined conference of these sections on February 28 will elect a Dominion president, two Dominion vice-presi-dents. and a Dominion treasurer, who. with the officers of the various sections elected on the previous day, will form the Dominion council. Mr B. V. Cooksley, who is provisional president of Federated Farmers, and Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, will represent New Zealand producers at the international conference of primary producers, opening in London on May 21. They and other New. Zealand delegates will leave about the’middle of March.