UNION OF PRODUCERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 170, 22 July 1941, Page 6

UNION OF PRODUCERS

ORGANISATIONS SHOULD CO-OPERATE (Press Assn.) Wellington. July 16. The necessity of the several sections of the primary producers’ organisations co-opcrating closely ior the purpose of promoting the best interests of all producers was a firmed by the annual Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington to-day, when a remit from Otago on the subject was carried. Tjie objective of complete unitj should not be lost sight of, said Mr. Mulholland. It was urgently necessary to get a very much closer link-up of primary producers’ organisations, and this apart from any consideration of the greater weight of opinion they would be able to bring to bear just for the ordinary everyday activities which they had to carry out under war conditions. The chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board, Mr. W. E. Hale, emphasised the need for a co-ordinating head to the primary industrial organisations. The principle of the proposal was right and that was ail they should be concerned with at present. The conference also expressed the conviction that the future welfare of the primary industries of New Zealand was dependent on better and closer organisation of farmers and farmer organisations, and strongly urged that every primary producers’ annual conference and annual meeting should agree to the early establishment of a Farmers’ Federation.