PRIMARY PRODUCE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 203, 25 May 1944, Page 4

PRIMARY PRODUCE

Post-War Marketing A request that the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union bring forward a clear-cut policy for the postwar marketing of primary produce is made in a resolution adopted at. the annual meeting of the Makara-Hutt \ alley branch of the union. Moving the resolution, Mr. J. Maher said that the dairy industry of New Zealand had been built soundly on a cooperative basis. The hardest part of t]jp industry was the producing and manufacturing. The selling side was easy. Today there were thousands of “hangerson” in the industry. Producers should ask that, the control and management of their industry should be handed back to them. Mr. R. Sievers said that farmers were irate over the price fixed for butterfat. In his opinion they needed a further 2d. or 3d. per lb. It was decided to ask that the executive point out to the Dairy Board that the main difficulty in obtaining increased production was,the price. If an adequate price were paid it would have the effect of bringing about the increased production sought. The principle of the guaranteed price promised the farmers before the 1935 elections should be strictly adhered to.