NEW ZEALAND LABOUR PARTY.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, April 8. The election of officers of the New Zealand Labour Party resulted:—President, Mr N. G. R. Mason M.P.; vicepresident. Mr William Atkinson; secretary and treasurer, Mr Walter Nash, M.P.; Central Council, Messrs T. Brindle, W. Bromley, L. Mcllvride, J. Thorn, Hon. Mark Fagan, M.L.C.; National Executive, Messrs J. G. Barclay, M. J. Savage, M.P., W. E. Barnard, M.P.,- J. S. Montgomerie, W. J. Rogers, F. G. Molesworth, W. Taylor, T. Parfltt, G. T. Thurston, G. T. Koller, F. Jones, J. Alsweiler. The question of wheat duties was discussed at length at the Labour Party Conference, and the following resolution was carried: “That a. special sub-Committee be set up with instructions to investigate and report to the National Executive upon the problems of wheat production, prices and duties, and the production, distribution and price of flour and bread to consumers, while ensuring a standard of wages to wheat farm employees and an adequate return to wheat farmers; also to investigate and report upon primary production and export prices generally with a view to formulating a policy of stabilisation of the incomes of bona fide working farmers engaged in primary production.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18847, 9 April 1931, Page 13
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