FARMERS’ ORGANISATIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1941, Page 5

FARMERS’ ORGANISATIONS

CLOSER UNION PROPOSED WELLINGTON, July 16. The necessity of primary producers’ organisations co-operating closely to promote the best interests of all producers was affirmed by the annual Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to-day, when a remit from Otago on the subject was carried. .The objective of complete unity should not .be lost sight of. said Mr. W. H. Mulholland. It was urgently necessary to get a very much closer link up of primary producers’ organisations, and this apart from any consideration of the greater weight of opinion they would be able to bring to bear. The chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board (Mr. W. E. Hale) emphasised the need for a co-ordinating head to primary industrial organisations. The principle of the proposal was right, and that was all they should be concerned with at present. The conference also expressed the conviction that the future welfare of the primary industries of New Zealand was dependent on the better and closer organisation of farmers and farmers’ organisations, and strongly urged that every primary producers’ annual conference and annual meeting should agree to the early establishment of a farmers’ federation.