CO-OPERATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9093, 12 July 1915, Page 9

CO-OPERATION

FEDERATION OF FARMERS’ ASSOCIATIONS.

At the conference of Farmers’ Cooperative Associations held in Christchurch during last week, it was decided to establish a federation of the ten associations’ represented. The new body will he known as the Farmers’ Co-operative Wholesale Federation of New Zealand, Ltd., and in the meantime its head office will be in Christchurch.

The concerns entering the federation are the Auckland Faripers’ Union, Whangarei; Hawke’s Bay'Farmers’ CoOp. Association, Napier; Farmers’ Auctioneering Co., Hamilton; Farmers' Co-Op. Organisation Society. Hawera; N.Z. Farmers’ Co-Op. Distributing Co., Ltd., Wellington; N.Z. Farmers’ CoOp. Association, Christchurch; Canterbury Farmers’ Co-Op. Association, Timaru; North Otago Farmers’ Co-Op. Association, Oamaru; Otago Farmers’ Co-Op. Association, Dunedin; Southland Farmers’ Co-Op. Association, Gore. The memorandum and articles of association were adopted and provisional directors elected as follow:—Messrs A. B. Crane (Whangarei), H. S. Hawkins (Hamilton), Geo. Kelly (Napier), A. Leigh Hunt (Wellington), J. A. Pannett and E. W. Belph (Christchurch), J. Talbot and J. P. Newman (Timaru), and Andrew Todd (Dunedin).

This important movement marks an epoch in the history of the co-operative movement in the Dominion, and great economies are expected by collective buying in the markets of the world as well as other substantial benefits by the closer working of the several associations.

The initial capital was fixed at £IOO,000.