A BIG SCHEME

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 90, 13 October 1920, Page 6

A BIG SCHEME

FABMERS' CO-OPERATIVE PLAN

UNITED BUYING AND SELLING.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (Received October 13, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 12th Ootober.

The Australian Press Association has interviewed Mr. Basil Murray, of the West Australian Co-operative Association, who stated that Mr. Msares, of New South Wales, and he, on behalf of the Australian Federation, and in conjunction with representatives of the New Zealand and South African Co-operative Federations, had completed negotiations for the establishment of joint business headquarters in Chiswell-street, Finsbury, London, for the purpose of selling products and purchasing requirements on behalf of the cooperative producers in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

The products will include dairy produce, fruit, wheat, wool, and everything exportable, and the goods to be purchased will include machinery, fencing materials, dairy requisites, and packing paper for fruit and butter. Jlr. A. E. Grough, long identified with tne Bristol and Dominions' Producers' Association, has been appointed general manager on behalf of the three countries named.

Arrangements have been made for representation in the principal provincial cities in Great Britain, and also to provide distributing agencies in the principal Continental ports, notably in Havre and Marseilles.

.Mr. Murray said he regards the threemonths' work done by Mr. Meares and himself as eminently successful. The scheme is the biggest co-operative enterprise every attempted in Britain on behalf of overseas producers. Mr. Meares is now on his way to Australia, and Mr. Murray will follow in the Orvieto on the 30th October. Mr. Gough assumes management of the business immediately.