Farmers' Claim For Equal Treatment

Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 8

Farmers' Claim For Equal Treatment

STABILISATION BOMBSHELL

(P.A.)

WELLINGTON, This Day

BY deciding to demand that farm prices should be increased sufficiently to place farmers on the same basis as other sections of the community, including - payment tor work necessarily done on Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays, Federated Farmers have agreed to a course of action which is expected to have enormous effects on the economic position in New Zealand.

The results o( the review of slabil isation made by members of the Do

with the stabilisation n«rcement o 1942.

minion council of the organisation when meeting at Wellington are not /known.

However, continued Mr Mulholland farmers must accept some moral obli

At that conference the burden imposed upon the farming community by stabilisation, when it was said there were breaches of stabilisation policy on behalf of ether industries, was discussed seriously in detail.

gal ion to the country to give some •notice if they decided against continuing the agreement.

The Dominion president (Mr W. W. Mulholland) stated that the organisation now had to give serious consideration to the relations cf farmers with stabilisation.

The conference passed a resolution asserting that Federated Farmers demand that farm prices should be increased sufficiently to place farmers on the same basis as oilier sections of the community, including payment for work necessarily done on Saturdays. Sundays and statutory holidays.

He contended that the Government had broken faith regarding stabilisation. and said Ihc farmers had no moral or legal obligations to continue

By the same resolution the Domin ion Council decided to establish ;

committee to confer with the Meat and Dairy Boards to make a public statement and continue to work with the boards in presenting the farmers case to the Government and the putjim-