WAR CONDITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 11

WAR CONDITIONS

FARM PRODUCTION

PERSONNEL OF COUNCIL

SUSTAINED EFFORT

Formed to organise the production of agricultural and pastoral commodities to meet the exigencies of war conditions, the Council of Primary Production will meet for the first time tomorrow. Its personnel was announced last night by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin), who is the chairman, as follows:—

Mr. A. H. Cockayne, Controller of Primary Industries, deputy chairman.

Mr. W. W. Mulholland, president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union.'

Mr. R. Eddy, president of the New Zealand Workers' Union.

Mr. W. E. Hale, chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board.

Mr. L. J. Wild, president of the Royal Agricultural Society.

Mr. H. M. Christie, chairman of the Wool Council.

Mr. L. McLean, farmer, Hastings.

Mr. R. B. Tennent, Director of the Fields Division, Department of Agriculture, who has been appointed Director of Primary Production to the council.

"After consultation with farmers and farm workers' organisations, I invited representatives of these organisations to form a Council of Primary Production," said the Minister, "and I am pleased to say that every man whose services were called upon instantly accepted the appointment. This is but another illustration of the determination of all sections of the farming community to make every effort to see that our production is maintained and wherever possible extended.

"It has been my endeavour to set up a working committee representative of all the major phases of primary production," Mr. Martin added, "and when the full organisation, which includes subsidiary national and district committees, is set up, I think we will be able to play a part worthy of our highest traditions. The whole of the machinery is being set in motion with the greatest possible speed, and we will soon be able to announce plans for a sustained and unprecedented effort."