MEAT PRODUCERS' BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 125, 29 May 1928, Page 12

MEAT PRODUCERS' BOARD

An advertisement appears to-day dealing with the election of two producers' representatives on the New Zealand Meat Producers Board. The regulations under which the election is conducted provide that the various districts shall elect twenty-five delegates, who will constitute an electoral committee. This committee will assemble in Wellington on 30th August, 1928, to consider the board's annual report and balance-sheet, and to elect the two prooducers' representatives on the board. The number o£ delegates and the boundaries of the various districts are set out in the advertisement. The latest official sheep returns (which at present are those at 30th April, 1927) shall be the electoral roll. Every sheep owner on this list having one hundred sheep or 'over shall be entitled to vote for delegates to the electoral committee, in districts where an election may be necessary. Nominations for delegates to the ■ electoral committee or for producers' representatives may be made by any two sheep 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 the board's office, Wellington, up to noon on 7th July, 1928. Nominations for producers' representatives on the board will be received up to noon on 30th June, 1928. No candidate for election- to the board shall be eligible for'nomination to tho electoral committee. In accordance with the provisions of the Meat Export Control Act, the members of the board who are to retire in August are Messrs. T. A. Duncan, Hunterville, and Adam Hamilton, Invercargill. These gentlemen offer themselves for re-election as producers' representatives on the board.