FARMERS & THEIR MARKERS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2187, 27 June 1914, Page 8

FARMERS & THEIR MARKERS

LINKING UP THE CO-OMSRATIVE - ASSOCIAKON, . (By Teloeraph.-Press Aasociatien.) ' ChristcSurch, Jims 26. .the principal subject censMt!«(] by tlio confo'enco of delegate vejpseseni* iijg the Farmers' Co-Qpcj--ativs Asspcbtions and the Farmers' Unking was the question of the. federation fif a Farm--ors' C-p-operativD Assne/jitkn irt tbo Dominion. It was rctemmontM io tlife conference tliat a seljctiM of federation should bo approved, 'flie recommendation was unanraWnsty aurewl to and a committee wa-s fiet nti to frame a prospectus and articles of "association. This decision to adopt, a .seheme. for the federation of all the farmois , ce* operative Associations in tjie Mill, it is believed, havo Very WmipjwM results. These will bp -felt'jfio.ro Bfif-ticiilarly.-in iho North Island wW tlieve are .comparatively few fanners' co-opprativo associations run on simikr lines to those in tlie. South Islftud. Ttioro nro quite a number there in an embr.vonir static, wliicli are Iwi'uh fostercfl by various blanches of the Fanners' Union. Tlmro is, however, a p»vat deal of ovflrlappiiiK. wliicli dors iwt'wplce for tne lifst results licing (Ataiiioil from the principle of co-oonrat.itm. ftic pro-, posed federation, it. is bpfcved, wiD'obyiate this slate of afraii's.--»Hcl vositlt in the fullest benefit beiiitf obtained fi'om co-ni)piation. :3lossrs. Relph.-Newman, and Hunt were anpointed ,n .<mb-ftomißitt»e' to draw up the prospectus of the pro, posed wholesale society, and also to prepare the lniMiiorindiliii n«if nrticW of association for submission in various associations and, subsequent-It-, to. tte conferenoo of interested institHtiwis. Jfr. Hill, rcpi-FSontativo of -tire Hi-fetol and .Dominions lVodiicers , Assoeiafciari, Ltd., brioflv addressed the eoiiferencc? a-s----to the nature and. scope of I>is association s operations. The question nf the camtofeHon of bonnsos- was diseus-sed at h<nrti\ tlio matter hariiur been brought f]o\ns in the manager's report. It was i.iu.Wmoiif.lv resolved, on the motimi t>! tin HOM..T. Anstey, seconded by Mi'. Clmmliorlam. '.'That this confwuen (jj-prfwos \U approval of Hie ' principle "{if "tlm voltintiiry capitalisation of the whofe or part of the- bonuses l>v ttie various co-operative assopintion-!." Tho Jlaligai-aina Co-operative Dairy Company has decided to iiKttiil a wIW. skimiumf; plant in its rhci-se inctorv■riie now niacliinery will fa instvifipfi ready for use at tlio roiiiineiwenient ot llio coniniK season (states e«v Pahiatua correspondent). ' ' . Mr. A. JCddie, iMangahao. has befrTi elected a director of the Wellington Varum™ , Bacon Company in place of Mr. A. M'lai-lauo, who reomitlv resignnd. Mr. M'Farl.-mo is at ptosoet fiii a trip to iho Old Country.