EXPANSION SOUGHT
At the annual meeting of the Primary Producers' Co-operative Society Ltd. held in the Board of the Auckland Farmers' Union recently several speakers urged the need for substantial extension to the Society's interests if it hoped to fulfil its origina] aims. In the course of his annual, report the chairman Mr R. R. Blade said:— > : "We saw similar attempts to our own made in isolated areas during 1914/18 with some measure of success but immediately pre-war marketing was reverted. to ? these cooperative attempts' Avere forced out. Why? Was it not'because they had failed to extend their operations wide enough and great, enough to oppose the proprietary interests both here: and on world markets ? It is ludicrous for us to suggest that Ave could have any major effect on markets abroad but it is not bej-ond the realms of possibility to strengthen our hands sufficiently to equal the achievements of the dairy industry. In fact, that is the only possibility of our continued existence as a -co-operative indus- '
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 90, 17 July 1945, Page 8
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169EXPANSION SOUGHT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 90, 17 July 1945, Page 8
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