FARMING INTERESTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 60, 28 March 1944, Page 5

FARMING INTERESTS

MOVEMENT TO UNIFY

A NOTE Oh" WARNING

In an interview with officers of the Rangitaiki Farmers' Union Ave learn that the new movement to unify all farming interests' by forming a Primary » Prod'ucers Association, with compulsory membership, is not entirely calculated to attain all the objects which it hopes to achieve. Our informants point out, that the farming position being so scris ous as it is to-day, it behoved All s farmers to be very careful as to what action they take by Avay of e seeking a solution. It is felt that 'it is necessary to point out to the a farmers of the Bay that the setting e up of another organisation, witli 3 the best of intentions, will not achieve, unity. a The present organisation, the Far- , mers' Union, has, it is claimed, s ready gone a very long way to i'ed- _ crate farmers' interests. Into one body also, the Farmers' Union has Avelded strong co-operative move- . men Is, Avhich to-day are growing and t pi'osijering. The primary producers , struggle is not local, but is Domin- , ion-wide, and for that reason it is contended the time is 100 short to start along fresh avenues of action. „ The old one Avould suffice if all , farmers combined to support it. ! There is little time left, however , for farmers to make up their minds ; to get together.