VISUALISE NEEDS OF EMPIRE FIRST, All PARTS URGED

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6630, 8 June 1928, Page 7

VISUALISE NEEDS OF EMPIRE FIRST, All PARTS URGED

CONFERENCE AT REGINA ORGANISE TO PRODUCE United Press Association—By Eleetrii Telegraph—Copyright. Eeceivcd Thursday, 5.5 p.m. The Wheat Conference delegates were the guests of the Canadian Club at Bogina. Sir Thomas Allen, of the BritishBmpire Marketing Board, stressed the growing need of each section of the Empire to visualise Empire needs lirst. Ho stated that the Conference should discuss a national programme of world standardisation and uniformity of quality. The economic future of the Empire was bound up in the willingness and ability of the people in each part to organise for greater production and a higher standard in quality. W' Exhortation to Tanners. Messrs A. W. Golightly aud John Oliver, English co-operative wholesale delegates, urged farmers to organise a co-opcrativo wholesale society. Mr Oliver advocated giving co-opera-tive societies a chance to sell factory products which farmers must import. Mr. Peter Malcolm, Scottish co-opera-tive delegate, said that sixty per cent, of the people ate co-operative bread and wanted to deal with co-operative farmers. All asked “Do you farmers with vast resources and economic merchandising organisations propose to destroy co-operative activities in Britain by putting the prices of products beyond our moans? ” Farmers answered in the negative. Co-operation’s Great Future. A message from Eegim states that efficient service, the 'widening of the field of usefulness, the making of agriculture more profitable, the improving of the quality of products, and efforts to regulate the world acreage of different crops, were the objectives the premier, Prof. John Bracken, urged tho Wheat Conference to seek at tonight’s session. “In ten years,” he said, “if you do your duty, co-oporation will be a great movement in the world for the amelioration of economic conditions among the mases of rural people.” He referred to tho interest with which Canadian farmers watched Australia’s experiments in State co-opera-tion.