FARMING AFFAIRS

Chronicle (Levin), 13 April 1948, Page 6

FARMING AFFAIRS

(This column is supplied w-eekly by Eederated Farmers - of ' Kew Zealand, and the information given is ofticial, but any views expressed" are those of the Federation, and are hot necessarily those of t-his newsi>aper.) Wool Maik€:tiAg. Australian wool growers are. pressiug on with piaiis for the organised marketing of wool by grpwers thomselves, . when the ope'rafions of the Joint Organ- • isation are completed. Eed'erated Earmers has just 'received detailed advice of decisions hiade at the recent halfyearly Conference of the .Australian Wool and Meat .Prcducers' Federation. Since the introduetion of a grower's marketing plan at last year's a'nnuai conference of that Federation, the various State grow;ers' organisations have given . it ftirther cousideration and now the plan :has been given- llnal and unauimous approval. Negotia.tion.s with the Commonwealth Government will immediately take place ' to prepare for oflicial acceptance of it. At the recenfc conference, growers reeommcnded that, commencing with the 194S-49 seaaon the Coutributory Charge on wool should be levied at up to 3 per cont. plus the amount required for current expenditure but not to exceed 5 per -cent. Legislation will be souglit for the period commoncing with the 1949-50 seasom The unexpended part for that money for 1948-.49, together with the levies under the legislation, are proposed to be paid into a capital account to be ufted as a fund to support a " Growers ' post. J. O. Plhn, '' when the prcs'ent one ceases op'eration. If -that pjau fails to materialise the inoney held will be returned to' growers. The Australian Wool and Mcat Producer's Federation is keeping ciosely in touelr with growers iu South Africa and New Zealahd for the Anterchange of ideas and opinions. Australia will co-operate .with growers in thesc couutrios on any similar marketing pians L I'. A. P. Conference. Mr. W. N. I'erry, Dominiou Presiident of Federated, Farpiers, sailed for Britain- on tlu^," Akaroa" two weeks ago en route to the anhual conference of the lntern'atibnai Federatioii of Agricultural Producers to be held in ' Paris l'roui ALa'y 19 to Miiy 29. The permanent organisatioii of thw Federation will be plaiuied at this Conference and it ■ will deal Svith speeiiic problems more fuH'y than has been possible at earlier meetings. A broadeast address will be given on the l.F.AiP. by 5Ir. W. W. Mulholland ojx May 26. He will deal with the plake of New Zealand in internation^il farnlers' organisations. being found some 25 yards furtlier along the line. Four nurses, who were piussengcrs on the train, rendered first aid pending the arriyiil of a doctor from Shannon ainl ,.Jhe victims were then taken by ambulance to Palmerston North Hospitai. . . " •The three nxen had been loading einpty sacks on the truck at Alakerua station 266 yards north of the crossing and were retafniiig to jNoaro 's gardcns at -Opiki. The road from tlie station to the crjssing runs paraliel with the line and then turns at riglit angles up .a sharp incliiie to the railway. ThduglT the vrdvr is uot obstructed, the vehicle 'was fpro'c e'fe'diflg" i li ' 'tlVC same direction as the train. As a rcsult of the aceident the train was delayea for about half an bour. ■ *