MORE PRODUCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 147, 22 June 1940, Page 7

MORE PRODUCTION

FARMERS DOWN TO IT

MOST PROMISING RESPONSE

(Special to the "Evening P*ost."l PALMERSTON N., This Day. Farmers in the Manawatu, Hawke's Bay, and Wairarapa are wasting no time in getting to work in response to Britain's appeal for additional food. Conferences have been held this week at the instigation of Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., who is chairman of the Primary, Producers' Federation, and area committees have been set up to give advice and arrange for co-operative effort. The meetings were pervaded with an atmosphere of determination that points to the voluntary effort being more than successful and that there will be no need for the authorities to exercise the absolute powers that have been given them by the emergency legislation. There is going to be difficully in butter suppliers sending milk to cheese factories owing to the shortage of milkcans, but it is hoped to overcome this problem in various ways, and already a census of unused cans is being taken by dairy companies. Even where cans are looked upon as past their useful days efforts are to be made to get them j reconditioned. This transfer of cream for butter factories to milk for cheese factories will affect the financial side of butter companies, but directors are expressing themselves as past the days when matters of 'profits will be considered as the major item of administration.

Mr. Poison reported that offers of help were coming from many directions. He instanced one farmer with a tractor who was prepared to keep it running 24 hours a day on whatever farm it was wanted. "We will do it," was the tenor of the reply that the farmers of the southern end of the North Island have given to Great Britain's appeal for more eggs, bacon, cheese, and meat.