FEDERATED FARMERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26479, 5 June 1947, Page 5

FEDERATED FARMERS

A VITAL INFLUENCE MUCH ALREADY ACHIEVED During the two years since Federated Farmers was formed in Otago, a tremendous amount of work had been done in spite .of chaotic conditions, said the president, Mr S. Sim, in his address to the annual conference of branch delegates yesterday. The results already achieved were evidence that Federated Farmers could become a vital influence for the farmer.

“Farming is an industry so varied that the task of creating an organisation catering for all interests would appear almost impossible, but we have made a good start,” he said. “If we continue in the spirit of unity, in whicn we set out on this great adventure, we will do more.” Farmers must work together if they wanted to maintain their place in the world which their importance as producers should assure for them. Work for their organisations and loyalty to them were essential. Already the fariners had obtained a greater voice in the conduct of their own industry than they had had for years. “The immediate prospects for our produce appear bright, but we will be able to maintain our prosperity and that of our country only by making our industry so efficient and so elastic that it. will be able to withstand the competition and vicissitudes that lie ahead,” added Mr Sim. “ While we, as farmers, must deplore the apparently endless inflation that is going on in New Zealand, we must set our own house in order against the inevitable day of reckoning, and the way to do that is to make ourselves more efficient than those who will be our competitors when world production o'nce more catches up with world demands.”