FEDERATED FARMERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 6

FEDERATED FARMERS

THE NEW ORGANISATION FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 13. The New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation are expected to complete their active existence within two months. It may be some years before their affairs are completely wound up but to all intents and purposes their long service to the farming industry will be concluded, and the represent; tives of farmers' organisations of ail types will be the new organisation, tiie Federated Farmers of New Zealand. The first national conference of the federated farmers will be held on February 28, following conferences on the previous day of the various produce sections—namely, meat and wool, dairy produce, agricultural and grain growers, and the commercial gardeners. The combined conference of these sections on February 28 will elect a Dominion president, two Dominion vice-presi-dents, and a Dominion treasurer, who, with the officers of the various sec tions, elected on the previous day, w ; form the Dominion council. Mr B. V. Cooksley, who is provisional president of the federated farmers, and Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, will represent the New Zealand producers at the international conference of primary producers opening in London on May 21. They and the other New Zealand delegates will leave about the middle of March.