FARMERS’ MOVE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1935, Page 6

FARMERS’ MOVE

FOR CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY ’ • ’ *• . ' (Per Press Association,••■Copyright). DANNEVIRKE -June 27. Speaking at a meeting of farmers at Two Tree Point, J. Livingstone (chairman ot Southern Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Union) (after stating that boards and .politicians had failed to find a new market, suggested the forming of a New Zealand co-operative marketing company. There were supposed to be 60,000 farmers in the Dominion. If each paid £5, that would mean £300,000. They should buy the best brains, and send the best men they could obtain to China and Japan. If they c ould get trade on a reciprocal basis then lie thought they would be getting somewhere. Whatever they did it s e emed to •him that they had to work on co-operat-ive lines to cut down the overhead lof stock and station agents. A rise of a farthing per lb in w o ol, mutton and butter, would move than recoup the ependiture. To form a company, farmers themselves .had to get behind it. He intended bringing the matter forward at the next Farmers’ Union Conference. '■•■ ■-■■■■■- ; “ ;r "