FARMERS’ UNION

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4491, 17 October 1941, Page 5

FARMERS’ UNION

FERTILISER RATIONING. DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED. Dissatisfaction with the method by which the rationing scheme for fertilisers was being carried out was expressed at a meeting of the Auckland executive of the Farmers’ Union. Protests were contained in remits from a large number of sub-provinces, several of which said an alteration was necessary and that blood and bone and bonedust should be placed on the same footing as superphosphate. The executive approved a remit the object of which was to provide a lower limit of lcwt. an acre, so that all farmers should be guaranteed this amount; to provide an upper limit to prevent unreasonably large allocations; and to provide a considerable surplus for cases of hardship, the powers of the fertiliser committee beihg widened to administer this plan. The reason for the proposal was to prevent deterioration of land through’ insufficient fertiliser. The methods of the State Advances Corporation were criticised and unanimous support was given to a remit from the Northern Wairoa sub-pro-vince on the matter. The remit stated that the action of the corporation toward rural mortgagors should be investigated, with particular reference to its refusal to renew without a reduction of a mortgage, its insistence on the inclusion of stock in the security, and its requirement of dairy orders. The executive decided to repudiate any suggestion that the farmers were adequately represented on the Stabilisation Committee and to disclaim any responsibility for the committee’s findings.