"LAUGHING STOCK"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 11

"LAUGHING STOCK"

FARMERS' UNION

GUARANTEED PRICE

RETENTION URGED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

DARGAVILLE, This Day,

. Pledging support for the Advisory Price Committee, expressing the view that the guaranteed price must be maintained, and iirging an adherence to the present system of marketing, were the chief points of a resolution carried unanimously by 200 suppliers attending the annual meeting of the Northern Wairoa Co-ojil Dairy Co., Ltd. •

"I am of the opinion that farmers are not dissatisfied with the fundamental principles but with rising costs," said Mr. C. D. Windust, in moving the resolution.

"The Farmers' Union is the laughing stock of all other unions, as it is not unanimous, and many individual farmers are sending letters to the Prime Minister expressing their own views," commented Mr. S. C. Colmore Williams. "We should speak with one voice, and the best thing we can do is to select leaders and stand wholeheartedly behind them as ->ther unions are doing. , That is the only way we will ever get justice."

Mr. S. Batger, in seconding the motion, stated he did not consider that farmers would be asking for any more than they had been promised previously if they supported the proposal.

There were five nominations for two vacancies on the directorate of the Ruawai Co-op. Dairy Co.—Messrs. Kenneth A. Finlaysbn, Kenneth R. Gunderson, Samuel D. Llewellyn, George A. Scdtt (sitting), and Nelson Waterman. Voting will be by postal ballot.