PRIMARY PRODUCTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23918, 20 September 1939, Page 6

PRIMARY PRODUCTION

EXIGENCIES OF WAR CONDITIONS • * -, . A COUNCIL SET UP THE PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON. Sept. ; 19. The personnel of the Council or Primary Production, which is to organise production and agricultural committees io meet the exigencies of the war qonditioi.3, was announced to-night by the Minister' of Agriculture (Mr W. Lee‘Martin), who, as chairman of the council, is calling the first meeting of the council for Thursday. “After consultation with farmers and farm workers’ organisations, I invited representatives of these organisations to form a Council of Primary Production,” said the Minister, “and I am pleased to say that every man whose services were called upon instantly accepted appointment. *. This is but another. iUustratipn of; the tion of allsdctiiafs oith&farming community t&. to see that our production is maintained and, wherever possible, extended.” The! personnel of the council is as follows: —Mr W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, chairman; Mr A. H. Cockayne, controller of primary industries. deputy chairman; Mr W. W, Mulholland, president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union;; Mr R, Eddy, president of the New Zealand Workers’ Union; Mr W. E. Hale, chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board; Mr L. J. Wild, president of the Royal Agricultural Society; Mr H. M. Christie, chairman of the Wool Council; Mr L. McLean, farmer, Hastings; and Mr R. B. Tennent, director of the Fields Division, Department of Agriculture, who has been appointed director of primary production to the council. ' vUv,-*: I '. ' “It has been my endeavour to set up a working committee represehtativc of all the major phases of primary production,” said Mr Lee Martin,■ “and when the full organisation, which includes subsidiary national and-district committees, is set up I think we will be able to play a part worthy. Of oiir highest traditions. The whole of the machinery ife being set 'in motion with the greatest possible speed, and we will , soon be able to announce plans for a sustained and;unprecedented effort.”