FEDERATED FARMERS
AUCKLAND STATEMENT Mr A. E. Robinson, member of Federated Farmers Dominion and Auckland Councils, who has been visiting Tauranga states: ‘The Auck-' land Farmers’ Union, objecting to a New Zealand Federation rule that divided Auckland into five groups, held aloof until an agreement that enabled it to remain intact as a province and to continue its cooperative activities was signed byMr W. H. Perry for the Dominion organisation and by Captain H. M. Rushworth, for the Auckland groups.
“This agreement provided that the bodies represented would enrol all farmers in a newly constituted organisation “Federated Farmers (Auckland)”. The'Farmers’ Union put its 10,000 members in Federated Farmers (N.Z.), it being explained that they thus became meifibers of Federated Farmers (New Zealand) in accordance with the amended rules of that body. “This accounts for about 500 Farmers’ Union members in the Bay of Plenty not voting in the recent plebiscite,” Mr Robinson continued. “Not many members other than those already in the Farmers’ Union were enrolled in the new body and among those who remained outside were a.number of Bay of Plenty men who were allowed votes in the recent plebiscite.
“Dominion conference of Federated Farmers ratified the agreement signed by its acting president, Mr Perry, but the agreement was not read nor circulated among delegates. A resolution that conference felt ‘that a plebiscite was the only method of settlement in the Bay of Plenty was succeeded by suggestions as to what should happen if the verdict went one way or the other, but only after Auckland delegates had left did conference make a plebiscite mandatory. . “Similarly,” Mr Robinson added, “it was in the absence of Auckland delegates that last Dominion Council meeting decided for a Bay of Plenty province. Auckland Council considers this decision is contrary to the rules and therefore ultya vires. The rules only provide for dealing with specific branches.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 11, 28 March 1947, Page 5
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