HASTINGS COUNCIL OF PRODUCTION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 175, 19 April 1940, Page 14

HASTINGS COUNCIL OF PRODUCTION

Delegate’s Resignation

MEETINGS DESCRIBED AS WASTE OF TIME Domixiu x Sp ECi al S ek v i c e. HASTINGS. April IS. Because lie considered the purpose tor which primary production councils were formed —increasing primary production could not be brought about within the scope of the powers ot the councils. 11 • ,1. I’,. Campbell Ims resigned as delegate of the Hawke's Bav branch ol the Kirtners’ I'uion on the Hastings District Council of Primary Production. In a letter considered by a meeting of the unions executive. Mr. Campbell said increased production of wool ami foodstuffs was ol greater importance than public works and housing schemes, and. till a l.iohey to provide ample credits and sufheicut labour to enable the farming communitj to make the best possible use ot the .and was nut into effect, it seemed to him a waste of time to attend council meetings merely to discuss the problems and dilticuities farmers were up against. “Some of us, no doubt, were misled into thinking the councils would be a means whereby it would be possible to assist the farming community to carry out what they themselves know can and should be done—to increase the supply of produce to the Mother Country tn hettime of need." wrote Mr. Campbell. .Lne amount of next year's production depends on the effort, one puts into the job dining the next few mouths, and to wait tin some more serious phase of a crisis which is already desperately serious comes on us. appears to me to be a criminal waste of time. The tank, ot course, lies not with the farmers, or with executives of their organiza.ions, but with the Government, which apparently does not realize that, we cannot make bricks without straw. . Mr. H. J. McKeesick was appointed to fill the vacancy.