RIFT IN UNION

Southland Times, Issue 21849, 28 October 1932, Page 8

RIFT IN UNION

AUCKLAND FARMERS NO COMPROMISE REACHED SEPARATION AGREED TO (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, October 27. For some time there has been a marked diversity of opinion between the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the Auckland Provincial Executive over some matters contained in Farming First, the official organ of the latter body. At the Recent Dominion Executive meeting a committee consisting of Messrs W. W. Mulholland (chairman), H. E. Bly de, D. Dickie, C. C. Jackson, W. Morrison and E. H. Mumey considered the position and presented the following report to the executive meeting to-day: “We have discussed with the representatives ; of Auckland, Messrs A. A. Ross and R. H. Feisst, continually recurring domestic differences caused fundamentally by sharply divergent ideas as to how best to press to finality the decisions of the Dominion Conference and the executive. The discussion was at all times conducted in a most friendly manner and all parties fully realized the gravity of the situation and the importance of any decisions which might be reached. “It was found impossible to come to any understanding with the Auckland representative which gave any promise of being final. The committee, therefore, with very great regret recommends that Mr Ross’s suggestion that the Auckland Provincial Executive. be allowed to form a separate organization for whose policy the Farmers’ Union will be in no way responsible be accepted and that he be authorized to inform the Auckland Provincial Executive that the Dominion Executive would facilitate in a friendly way such separation. The basis of separation should be decided at the earliest possible moment.” The report was unanimously adopted by the Dominion Executive and will be considered by the Auckland Executive at the next meeting.