YOUNG FARMERS' CLUBS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 24

YOUNG FARMERS' CLUBS

ACTIVITIES DURING WAR

That the Young Farmers' Clubs can do more to assist the country in the present emergency by continuing their ordinary activities rather than by going into recess was the opinion expressed at a meeting of the New Zealand Federation Dominion executive in Wellington yesterday. Those present agreed that, as far as present restrictions would allow, the work of the organisation should be intensified. It was decided that the work of clubs should be diverted towards assisting in production, and it was stated that much could be done by the formation of emergency labour gangs or emergency committees for other purposes. District committees and councils should also carry on, and should not consider that their services were not essential, as the co-ordination of interest that accompanied their meetings was the foundation of the w,hole organisation. It was decided to appeal to all units of the organisation to see that interest in the movement was maintained and intensified, and to ask members to hold themselves in readiness to assist in the organisation of such emergency measures as could be successfully implemented by the movement. The action of the Dominion president, Mr. E. W. Barnett, in offering the whole of the resources of the movement to the Government was heartily endorsed by the meeting. ! The federation has 207 clubs affiliated with a total membership of more than 50p0.