TO HELP FARMERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 5

TO HELP FARMERS

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

WORKING PARTIES SUGGESTED

A proposal that a farmers." aid committee be formed in Faeroa to organise working parties to assist farmers in time of emergency was approved at a meeting of the Paeroa E.P.S. and might well be emulated on the Rangitaiki Plains.

The Controller, Mr Edwin Edwards, who mooted tlie idea, explained that at present nearly every farmer in the district was a mem.-* ber of the Home Guard and if this organisation was called out in an emergency there would be nobody left on the farms except womenfolk.

There were, he contended, many older men who were not in the Home Guard who could help in an emergency. If they only kept the water troughs filled for the cattle or brought in the herds for milking they could be of great assistance. There were many ways in which they could help. Mr Edwards suggested that a committee should be formed to org-< anise the available labour in Paeroa so that milking plants, etc., could be quickly arranged if ever needed. Mr D. G. McMillan said he wished to- thoroughly endorse the idea, adding that he had often thought something along the lines could be organised. Mr Edwards said he considered that the committee should consist of men with a full knowledge of farming and it was agreed to ask Mr W. F. Johnstone, to take up the mat-* ter and organise the necessary committee and working parties.