NEED FOR CO-ORDINATION

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1933, Page 11

NEED FOR CO-ORDINATION

BETTERING EXISTING CONDITIONS. APPEAL BY FARMERS’ LEADERAn appeal for co-ordination with other sectioris of the community as the quickest and most effective way of bettering conditions in. New Zealand was made by Mr. H. E. Blyde in his presidential address at the arinual North Taranaki confererice of the Farmers’ Union at Inglewood on Friday. . Farmers to-day should realise, Mr. Blyde said, that they must learn to be bigger, to take the broad view. Surely they would to-day learn that the majority must rule. For one occasion upoq which the farmer found himself at variance with his organisation,' there, must be numerous occasions upon which he was in complete agreement with the organisation’s advocacy. It was neces-

sary, if they were to get anywhere as an organisation, that the units of the organisation should accept the position that their views could not be always either accepted by the ' others or even be right. That had been more generally recognised to-day by members. The unionists must try to realise the feelings and .the difficulties of. pthet .sections of .the.'’community,that what they advocated vvaS .to the benefit not only of themselves but also of the majority of . the people in New Zealand; in other words, the union advocated nothing but- what would be to the nation’s benefit. As farmers found it wise and beneficial to unite, they must as far as possible extend the principle and if they' could unite with other organisations representing other sections of the community, and by so doing benefit New Zealand, they should certainly be prepared to do so. That was not as impossible as it might sound.' If other sections of • the community became imbued with the idea of national service first, surely they would then meet on common ground. The cause of most of the distrust and enmity .between town and country was ignorance on both sides as to the actual position. The townspeople did not, or would not, realise just what the position was, or just how the farmer viewed certain things, and on. the other hand, the farmer perhaps did not realise what the business man or the working man was up against. Surely the quickest and most effective method of bettering conditions in New Zealand was by obtaining the help of, and co-operating with the other sections of the community.

He did not mean that the Farmers’ Union should depart very materially from its platform or in any way sink its principles; nor did he mean that the other sections of the community should do likewise; but rather;' with a better understanding between them, they would create a feeling of co-operation rather than antagonism. The nations"of the world had found it necessary to endeavour to formulate mutual understanding between them. Every nation to-day realised tnat by Itself it could not exist, and even those who in the past had been bitter enemies were now making definite moves towards mutual understanding.