FARMERS UNION GROWING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 77, 24 December 1907, Page 4

FARMERS UNION GROWING.

OKUAJNfeEi(S ; IN TARANAKI. lljoporting "on r their Owork, Messrs. Naughton; joint organisers (and secretaries) of the'<Taranaki Provincial FarmeVs? 4 ' Union, ■ state ":—., IiVVo begail'."our work in the Eltham district and ■have-visited over 100 farmers. Of.'.tlicsc, eighty have either paid or will pay'without a.'doubt:;' , ; ten are doubtful, but we;rattier'think,.wp Can■'get them all except new men to tho distriotj" ari(l-v?ill' fall 'iiito line in 1908-9, and one" , is a ..transfer. v .,Bcsides theso there aro 'nineteen'! , 'paid-up members of the Eltham ■ : branph,,-,befpre < .-w ( ,our canvass. So

'far all farmers interviewed arc known to either or both of us, and wo know what promises are worth, but when wo get into strange country some other method , will have to be adopted. And wo would suggest having addressed envelopes loft with every farmer who promises support. Wo have found a good many fanners who were members of tho Union but had not been asked for their subscriptions for a year, or may bo two. From these we havo simply collected or arranged to collect the current year's subscription. It may incidentally be mentioned that forty subscriptions per week will pay the secretarial and organising expenses, and thirty per week will pay tho dilferenco between the £50 salary and'tho £»JO." ■ . ' ■ •