FARMERS’ UNION DIFFERENCES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 269, 28 October 1932, Page 8

FARMERS’ UNION DIFFERENCES

AUCKLAND STANDS ALONBSEPARATE BODY PROPOSED. Wellington, October 28. Differences of opinion that have existed between the Auckland Provincial Fanners’ Union is about to culminate in a parting of the ways, the Dominion executive adopting • recommendation yesterday in which it agreed to facilitate the separation of the Auckland executive from the main body at the earliest possible moment. For some time there has been a marked diversity of opinion between the Dominion executive and the Auckland, executive over some of the matters contained in “Farming First,’’ the official organ of the latter body. At the recent Dominion executive meetiiig a committee consisting of Messrs W. W. Mulholland (chairman), H. E. Blyde, D. Dickie, C. C. Jackson, W. Morrison, and E. H. Murney, considered the position, and presented the following report to the executive;— “We have discussed with representatives of Auckland, Meairs A. A. Roas and R. H. Feisst, the continually recurring domestic differences caused fundamentally by the sharply divergent ideas as to how best to press to finality the decisions of the Dominion conference and executive. The discussion was at all times conducted in the most friendly manner, and all parties fully realised the gravity of the situation and the importance of any decisions which might be reached. “It was found impossible to come to any understanding with the Auckland representatives which gave any promise of being final. The committee therefore with very great regret recommends that Mr Ross’s suggestion that Auckland provincial executive be allowed to form a separate organisation for whose policy the New Zealand Farmers’ Union should be in no way responsible, be accepted, and that he be authorised to inform the Auckland provincial executive that the Dominion executive would facilitate in a friendly way such a separation. The basis of separation should be decided at the earliest possible moment.” The report was unanimously adopted by the Dominion executive, and will h considered by the Auckland oxecuiiv! at its next meeting. ut,v<