FARMERS' UNION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 8

FARMERS' UNION.

Tho Anii-iiA.' .meeting of the Te lv;irak;i branch \xan h<-Ul <k\ Friday cvi'iiing. ihirteen niembi-iv* and tli« organising .secretary, Mr 11. l>t<du*vd. liouig prcsi.-nt. Tlie president' (Mi- 11. it*. ford) took tbo chair. He said that tbe branch con.d be congratulated on a «uecesid'u' *,-imiwork; the;membv*;r«hip was being tiu'argest of .--any -branch outwidc f'i.«-bwri*:e. and attendanci*--. hud been well inantained. . Important -results bad bei*n acliievtd during the yoar, and the [Now 1 eijahd Farm'ors' Union was now recognised by the T'orerhment as a reprosfflitatiye body. . lhe 'scMSretAry t-hon took the cha'i*; ami (-al.'cd for noininatiohi*; for tlie oftica of president, ■ and- Mr JI. Telltri'd' Was u*eyftcted. -Tli'e latter then 'propostxl a ..vc-.*3 of thanks to Mr N. Syiues, he;.. :<*crot-«ry, lor his valuable (services dur r.ig liiio ]>a«t. yerr, "and* no'iiifiHited* him, :V.r t\x x same otllce. yMr »Sy.nc*s av:i> ! u»>nn.'-n onsly re-elected, and tho vot'? o; i hanks wa« carried by a?clau:-?.t:on. [Nit t .'. 0. Holdsworth Vti.s elected v:ce-presi •Vent -*»nd delegate to tlie siib-provincV: ►-x.ct.vft A hearty .vote of thanks w's, •cc*or«'ed .Mr C-. IT. Uridge for bis va'.a ••I bit* soi-vices an delegate during the past yor. . nioChnirman: inferred, to. the los* sus (lined by the Union m the death yof Mi i<\ PatttiKo, who bad.be^n a-sti*<nig stippoi*ter of the movement." . Messrsi W. T). Bnt,ce ar.d' 1. Humph reys were o!"3Cted raeinberp. . A con --iii: rab:<»[ .ihiQunt)., ot correspondi>hce[ was di*r<"t with,- and the reports of the". organ's riii secretai-r and the minutes .*••? . tlii-» meot'nq-* of V c ;.« üb-pioviiicia* executive w«.:it icAd and' diacuased. Mr C H.[ Brid^ vevjovtod tho arrangements niado for the Ocyeiiirocut cipert.'*' tmu* of the di.r*lvi<t to inspect bine dcjx)s'ts •md sol v-'q-jirerrent*. m the- agrienltnral district-*--. yy-"'.'. A -motion, by ; M-v C H. "tridge, that the -central executive allow'" the organising secretary td nndertake <^nruniosioiis. for one or more of the local farmers' co-operatiro companies, was carried. The Returned Soldiers'- ■.■•A.ssoc'at ion psked for assists ncc m their plan*** for tbe[[ Bed Triangle campaign; and on the; ?y*ofelon of Mr t'.. WT. ..■■Humphr : c'}'«, "'-'it vras decided to give all .assistance possib'e. It w,as resolved to initiate a sheep drive, and^axrangements' were left m the hands <>;' Messrs Holdsworth, Bridge, and Appleton. 1 [A-iremit. dealing with [; -the pi*oposed j pii^ha*? of all freezing works and abat-,. I'+o-hs i [by the Government was left oVer i I'll Ije^t meeting for. - discussidn. . *• ..- y M[r ; :G. W.. Humphi*eys suggested -thnt the • organising , secretary be asked to j obtiip. all possibles infornwtioii as to 'tha j teqiiirementsof ■ the • dfetricfc m the way of power fpr li^littng and commercial use.; and the r-ossibil't'es-. for the genera- [ twn of a local supply, y . . I