FARM ECONOMICS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 193, 17 July 1939, Page 5

FARM ECONOMICS

CALL FOR ACTION. AYELLINGTON. July 17. The following report of a discussion held in committee at the annual conference in AYellington last week of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union was issued yesterday: The conference, after rv long discussion in committee on what means could he used most effectively to counteract the progressive worsening of the farmers’ economic position, adopted the following resolution:

“That the Dominion executive he instructed to draw up a programme of action—either economic or political—to he placed before a special Dominion conference to he milled immediately it deems advisable, having special consideration to the fixing ol the guaranteed price or the Government s expressed intention in respect to the findings of the Sheep-Farming Commission.

“This conference is of the opinion that ultimately political action through the medium of a rural party is the effectual means of securing economic

justice for the farmer and the community in general. Therefore, the Dominion executive is instructed to examine the question from all angles with a view to the adoption by next j annual conference, or sooner, if necessary, of concrete proposals to give I effect thereto.” j The Dominion president (Air AA . AA’. Alulholhuid) commented that this resolution would, in certain circumstances, become of momentous importItanec, and impressed oil delegates the gravity of the implications that it contained. It was evident from the very serious attention that had been given to the framing of this resolution by representatives of every district throughout New Zealand that the farmers were determined to take much more positive action than they hud been prepared to do hitherto, unless means were immediately forthcoming to rectify the very grave position into which the industry found itself drifting, and the disabilities which were coming upon it ironi a number ol directions.