FARMERS' SUPPLIES
CO-OPERATIVE BUYING CANTERBURY PROPOSAL [by telegraph —PRESS association J CHEISTCHURCH, Friday Co-operative buying for farmers was favoured at the North Canterbury provincial conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, and the incoming executive was instructed to undertake the formation of a co-operative purchasing society, or to adopt some other means of securing financial benefits tor financial members of the union. 11ns was the unanimous decision of members. Quoting tho successful co-operative schemes already in operation in other parts of tho world, «tnd the satisfflc* tory experiments conducted on a minor scale in New Zealand, two remits were before the conference. The Waimairi branch asked for a co-operative purchasing society, or some similar system, and the Kaiapoi branch sought the fullest information on the possibility of obtaining the benefits of bulk purchase, or trade discounts for Farmers Union members.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23055, 4 June 1938, Page 15
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