NEW FARMERS’ UNION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 689, 14 June 1929, Page 10

NEW FARMERS’ UNION

OUTLINE OF AIMS BY FIRST BRANCH CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT Press Association CARTERTON. Today. A new Farmers’ Union has been formed with its first branch at Carterton by Mr. Ben Roberts, chairman of the Parkvale Co-operative Dairy Co.. Ltd. One reason for the new union is stated to be the great dissatisfaction with the payment of levies to the produce control boards, which it considers do not render services worth the money. The changed attitude of the old Farmers' Union toward the establishment of agricultural banks and improved methods of marketing produce, is also taken exception to. The new union also considers its establishment imperative on account of- the new British Labour Government forming an Empire Food Purchasing Council for the purchase of products direct from farmers’ associations and not through the mercantile houses of the . Dominion. The new union aims at the acceleration of State acquisition of lands for close settlement; obtaining legislation empowering the issue of legal-tender paper money on the security of leasehold and freehold laud, livestock, etc.; to obtain statutory authority vesting iu a Supreme Council power to pnrchase, with farmers’ authorisation bonds, any land, premises or machinery, etc., for the necessary production and marketing of primary produce, and to fix prices. The union also advocates the abolition of all produce control boards.