FEDERATED FARMERS

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6105, 24 September 1947, Page 4

FEDERATED FARMERS

NEW WHITEHALL/BRANCH. An official brand! of Federated Farmers was formed at Whitehall on Friday last. There was an excellent attendance of eighteen farmers out of a total of twenty-two. Branch tfficfals are as follows: Chairman, jM J A. B. Baker; deputy chairman, B. E. Oliver; secretary Mr D, Abbott. ’ .The'chairman reported on the Dominion Conference; also on the Provincial Conference held in Hamilton, on;. September 10, to.welcome Mr Perry arid launch the campaign for the £15,000 appeal. Many of the important items in Mr Perry’s address were discussed for the information of members. ’ A full discussion took place on the increase in fertilizer price and other farm costs brought about by the removal of subsidies and it was agreed that although the increase in schedule prices for meat would cover the proportion of increased costs as far as meat is concerned, on a N.Z. basis, it would seriously affect production in the Auckland Province, particularly with regard to land which had not yet reached a high productive level. Tulip Time in Holland. “We were fortunate that when we were in Holland in May it; was tulip time,” said Mr W. Norman Perry when he spoke of; his impressions whilst on his trip overseas this year to a meeting of Cambridge business people On Monday evening last, “it was a wonderful sight to see the acres : -and acres' of tulips. They were all in obldng beds, each bed a different colour. It did seem a shame that y. most of the lovely blooms were cut off and dumped for manure, for the Dutch grow the tulips for the bulbs and not the flowers.”