FEDERATED FARMERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 4

FEDERATED FARMERS

NEW ORGANISATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. The Federated Farmers of Now Zealand (Inc.), is now an accomplished fact. Mr. E. V. Cooksley, chairman of the Farmers’ Federation. Mr. G. H. Grifitg, president of the Sheepowners Federation, and Mr. W. W. MulhoUand. Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, stated in a public announcement made toCU Tihs is the new farmers’ organisation in which the Sheepowners* Federation and Farmers’ Union have combined and which other producers' organisations are preparing to jon. It will be the means of linking all primary producers into one big organisation. Discussion on the action ot ;uj Auckland group under Mr. 11. M Pushworth in registerin'-' a body enisled the United Farmers’ Federation of New Zealand (Auckland Province). was taken in committee at the quarterly meeting of the Eav e‘ Plentv ‘sub-nrovincial executive _n ‘.ho Fanners’ Union The 101 l owing notion was carried! "That this meeting affirms its adherence to the Now Zealand Farmers’ Union, of which the delegates here present and the branches they represent are an integral part, ' inalienable merely by •geographical incidence, and this meeting pledges to give support to Auckland executive and through •4 to the Dominion executive in policy matters and decisions constitutionally arrived at by the Dominion executive.”