FINDING MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 12

FINDING MARKETS

Farmer Suggests Cooperative Action By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dannevirke, June 27 Speaking at a meeting of farmers at Ti Tree Point, Mr; J. Livingston, chairman of the Southern Hawke's Bay Farmers’ Union, after stating that boards and politicians bad failed to find new markets), suggested the forming of a New Zealand co-operative marketing company. > There were supposed to be 60,000 farmers iu the Dominion, he said, and if each paid £5 that would mean £300,000. They should buy the best brains and send the best men they could obtain to China and Japan. If they could get trade on a reciprocal basis, then lie thought they would -be getting somewhere. Whatever they did it seemed to him they had to work on co-operative lines to cut down the overhead of the stock and station agents. A rise of a farthing a pound iu wool, mutton, aud butter would more than recoup the expenditure to form the company. The farmers themselves had to get behind it. He intended bringing tlie matter forward at the next Farmers’ Union conference