NEW ORGANIZATION FOR FARMERS

Southland Times, Issue 25482, 30 September 1944, Page 4

NEW ORGANIZATION FOR FARMERS

Draft Copies Of Rules To

Be Circulated

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 29. At the conclusion of a special meeting of the council of the Farmers’ Federation held today to discuss the formation of a new body, the United Farmers’ Federation of New Zealand, which is to include all farmers, the following resolution was passed unanimously: “That this meeting urges that agreement upon the final draft of the rules be arrived at as soon as possible and that the new organization be then registered and a provisional Dominion council be then set up to arrange for the new organization to be set in motion.”' The above statement was made to the Press by Mr B. V.- Cooksley, president of the Farmers’ Federation, Mr G. H. Grigg, president of the Sheepowners Federation, and Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion,, president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, who stated that draft copies of the proposed rules would be circulated and another meeting of the committee working upon them would be held about the end of October, after which it was hoped it would be possible to register the new organization.