PARTING OF WAYS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 12

PARTING OF WAYS

Farmers’ Union Differences AUCKLAND STANDS ALONE Separate Body Proposed EXECUTIVE’S' DECISION Differences of opinion that have existed between the Auckland Provincial Executive land the New Zealand Farmers’ Union is about to culminate in a parting of the ways, the Dominion executive adopting a recommendation yesterday in which it agreed to facilitate the separation of the Auckland executive from the main body at the earliest possible moment. For some time there has been a marked diversity of opinion between the Dominion executive and the Auckland executive over some of the matters contained in “Farming First,” the official organ of the latter body. At the recent Dominion executive meeting a committee consisting of Messrs. W. W. Mulholland (chairman), H. E. Blyde, D. Dickie, C. C. Jackson, W. Morrison, and E. H. Murney, considered the position, and presented the following report to the executive: — “We have discussed with representatives of Auckland, Messrs. A. A. Ross and R. 11. Feisst, the continually recurring domestic differences caused fundamentally by the sharply divergent ideas as to how best to press to finality tlie decisions of the Dominion conference and executive. The discussion was at all times conducted in the most friendly manner, and all parties fully realised the gravity of the situation and the importance of any decisions which might be reached. “It was found impossible to come to any understanding with the Auckland representatives which gave any promise of being final. The committee therefore with very great regret recommends that Mr. Ross’s suggestion that Auckland provincial executive be allowed to form a separate organisation for whose policy the New Zealand Farmers’ Union should be in no way responsible, be accepted, and that he be authorised to inform tlie Auckland provincial executive that the Dominion executive would facilitate in a friendly way such a separation. The basis of separation should be decided at the earliest possible moment.” The report was unanimously adopted by the Dominion executive, and will be considered by the Auckland executive at its next meeting.