PLAN OF ACTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 7

PLAN OF ACTION

FARMERS PREPARE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL

' A RURAL PARTY? WELLINGTON, July 17. A great part of the proceedings at the annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union last week was devoted to a discussion in committee, of ways and means cf counter-acting economic difficulties which farmers are experiencing. The following official report has now been issued:— The conference, after a long discussion in committee on what faeans could bo used most effectively to counteract t ie progressive worsening of the farmers’ economic position, adopted the following resolution: “That the Dominion executive be instructed to draw up a programme of action -either economic or political - to be placed before a special Dominion conference to be called immediately it deems advisable, having special consideration to the fixing of the guaranteed price or the Government's expressed intention in respect to the findings of the Sheepfarming Commission. “This conference is of the opinion that ultimately political action through Ihe medium of a rural party is the effectual means of securing economic justice for the farmer and the community in general. Therefore the Dominion executive is instructed jto examine the question from all angles with a view to the adoption by I next annual conference, or sooner, if I necessary, of concrete proposals to I give effect thereto." The Dominion president, Mr. W. W. j Mulholland, commented that this resolution would, in certain circumstances become of momentous importance, and impressed on dele, r les the gravity of the implications that it contained. It was evident from the very serious attention that had been given to the framing of this resolution bj representatives of every district throughout New Zealand that the farmers were determined to take much more positive action than they had been prepared to do hitherto, unless means were immediately forthcoming to rectify the very grave position Into which the industry found itself drifting, and the disabilities which were coming upon it from a number of directions.