FIZZLED OUT

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31061, 17 May 1966, Page 3

FIZZLED OUT

(New Zealand Press Association)

LNVERCARGILL, May 16. The agricultural production council which could have been the greatest single boost to farming for many years past had been allowed to fizzle out, the annual conference of Southland Federated Farmers was told today. “Only the talk about it by people in high places had remained to remind farmers that it had been in existence,” said the chairman of the meat and wool section, Mr R. A. Jefferis. “What is required Is not talk by such people but definite and constructive talk,” he said. “The launching of the

council was to my mind a shot in the arm that was so vitally needed by primary production in this country after a period when it had been allowed to be superseded in importance by secondary industries, but unfortunately the launching seems to have been the most spectacular part of it. “We have seen very few positive results that have come from it. We know what many of the recommendations made by the council have been and what the result of them being put into practice would mean in the terms of increased production, but very few of them have been acted on,” Mr Jefferis said.