MEAT PRODUCERS' BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 3

MEAT PRODUCERS' BOARD

ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES.

An advertisement appears elsewhem dealing with the' election of three pro ducers representatives on the New Inland Meat Producers' Board. The reeuktions under which the election is cfnduc ed provide that the various districts shall elect 25 delegates, who will constitute an electoral committed, which will assemble in August and elect the producers representatives. In view of the requests from producers and to promote further interest in the election, the board has reduced the size of the various electoral districts, so that this year there are ten districts instead of six, as was the case last year. This will result in tlie candidates being .known by a greater proP°£ tK>n of the electors of tho district. Ihe latest official sheep returns (which at present are those at 30th April 1924) will be the electoral roll. Every sheep owner on this list having one hundred sheep or over will be entitled to vote for delegates to the Electoral Committeo Nominations- for delegates on the Electoral Committee or for producers' representatives may be made by any two s»oep farmers appearing on the official sheep returns as owning not less than one hundred sheep. Forms of nomination are obtainable at the board's office, Wellington. Nominations for delegates to the Electoral Committee will be received at th« board's office, Wellington, up.to noon on 16th July, 1925, whilst nominations for producers' representatives on the board will be received up to noon -on 13th August, 1925.

In accordance with the provisions of the Meat Export Control Act, the members of the board who are lo retire in August are Messrs. J. C. N ' Gristr Wboach; J. S. Jessep, Wairoa; and \\ .. Perry, Jtasterton. These gentlemen offer themselves for re-election as pro ducers' representatives on the board