Delegates from Big Part of North Island
CONFERENCE IN WANGANUI More than 160 farmers from the southern portion of the North Island assembled in Wanganui yesterday for the first interproviueial conference of the newly-formed Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Ine.), the first post-war interprovincial conference and the first farmers’ interprovincial conference to be held here since 1939. Delegates from the Wanganui, Wellington Central, Manawatu, Wairarapa, and Makara-Hutt provinces attended. The conference commenced at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and is not expected to end before 4.30 this afternoon. Under the chairmanship of Mr. H. J. McLeavey (Manawatu, the conference commenced with a 40-minute address by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Roberts. Other features were an address by Mr. McLeavey and one by the economic research officer of the Federation, Mr. D. L. Martin, Wellington. Welcoming the delegates, Mr. E. C. Hone (Wanganui provincial chairman), said that such a large conference augured well for the future of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. Being a new organisation. Federated Farmers still Jiad some points of its constitution to be ironed out. and a good deal of time was being taken up with this, ineluding some major discussions in committee, he said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 123, 30 May 1946, Page 7
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