LEADERSHIP A WARD

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32565, 26 March 1971, Page 14

LEADERSHIP A WARD

The president of North Canterbury Federated Farmers and junior vice-president of Federated Farmers of new Zealand, Mr W. N. Dunlop, has been given an international leadership award by the Department of State of the United States of America.

During a month in the United States Mr Dunlop plans to gather information and also have discussions about the various forms of farm cost supports in that country. Mr Dunlop was one of the first to suggest a support scheme for farmers in New Zealand along the lines of the cost adjustment scheme recently put up to the Government by Federated Farmers of New Zealand.

In conjunction with this he will also be studying farm structures, with particular reference to the position of the farmer in relation to vertical integration by industries dealing in farm products. Mr Dunlop Will also be looking into progress being made in the breeding of sheep, cattle and pigs and into modern extensive feedlots, AS well as being national junior vice-president of Federated Farmers, Mr Dunlop is chairman of the federation’s Dominion transport committee and has been a member of the Government committee of inquiry into overseas interests in the transport industry. He is now in his third term as president of the North Canterbury province of Federated Farmers and he is also a member of the electoral committee of the Meat and Wool Boards.

A pioneer in the development of the Coopworth breed of sheep,, he is at present president of the Coopworth Society of New Zealand. A stud sheep and intensive cropping farmer, who uses irrigation, Mr Dunlop farms 950 acres at Greenpark and Bumham with three sons. Mr Dunlop will leave on May 6 as a member of the New Zealand delegation to a meeting of the Pacific Basin Economic Council in Vancouver and will go to the United States under his award immediately after that meeting.