NEW ZEALAND MEAT BOARD

Northern Advocate, 21 June 1926, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND MEAT BOARD

ELECTION OF PRODUCERS’ REPRESENTATIVES. An advertisement appears in our advertising columns dealing with the election of two producers’ representatives on the new Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. Tlie regulations under which the election is conducted provide that the various districts shall elect twentyflve delegates, who will constitute an Electoral Committee, which will assemble in August and elect the producers’ representative. In order to promote greater interest in the election, and so that the candidates would be known by a greater proportion of the electors of the district which they were nominated to represent, the board last year reduced the size of the various districts, thus increasing the number to ten districts instead of six. The number o£ delegates and the boundaries of the various districts are set out in the advertisement.

The latest official sheep returns (which at present arc those at 30th April, 1925) shall be the electoral roll. Every alieep-owner on this list having one hundred sheep or over shall be entitled to vote for delegates to the Electoral Committee.

Nominations for delegates on the Electoral Committee, or for producers’ representatives, may be made by any two sheep-farmers appearing on the official sheep returns as owning not less than one hundred sheep. Forms of nominations are obtainable at the board’s office, Wellington. Nominations for delegates to the Electoral Committee “will be received at the board’s office, Wellington, up to noon on June 13, whilst nominations for producers’ representatives on the board will be received up to noon on August 12.

In accordance with the provisions of the Meat Export Control Act, the members of the board who are to retire in August, are Messrs T. A. Duncan, Hunterville, and Adam Hamilton, Invercargill. These gentlemen offer themselves for re-election as producers’ representatives on the board.