FARMERS’ PROBLEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 97, 27 April 1939, Page 3

FARMERS’ PROBLEMS

MELTING TO BE HELD GUARANTEED PRICES FOR MEAT AND WOOL. DOMINION PRESIDENT TO SPEAK. Advice that the Dominion president, Mr. W. W. Hulholland, would address a meeting of farmers in Wanganui on the night of Wednesday, May 10, was received at yesterday’s meeting of the Wanganui Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr. Mulholland will speak on the problems confronting the primary producers and will also speak on guaranteed prices for primary produce. The executive, after a lengthy discussion, decided to hold a meeting of farmers next Wednesday afternoon to discuss the question of a guaranteed price for meat and wool as advocated at some of the branch annual meetings. At the meeting, votes will be taken on guaranteed prices by dairy farmers, sheep farmers and by the farming community as a whole. Mr. R. O. Montgomerie said that the guaranteed price proposals had to be fought out and the visit of Mr. Mulholland would give the farmers an opportunity of discussing the matters with their leader.

Mr. Nelson Hughes suggested that the opinion of the farming community should be ascertained by means of a postal ballot. The president, Mr. T. Currie: I don’t think many farmers would reply. Mr. Claud Smith: You would get a better response than from a meeting of farmers. Farmers who did not come to the meetings would give their votes. The meeting agreed to define a dairy farmer as a farmer with 10 cows and a. shec> farmer as a man who grazed 200 sheep. An amendment moved by Mr. B. Dawes that the meeting should be held after the visit of Mr. Mulholland was lost.