CO-OPERATION URGED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20133, 30 December 1939, Page 12

CO-OPERATION URGED

STATE AND FARMERS “BURY THE HATCHET” SOUTHLAND OPINION “That this executive endorse the action of the Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union in forwarding a letter to the Prime Minister condemning the attitude of the controller of commercial broadcasting in his attack through the radio on the primary producers of New Zealand." was a motion passed by the Southland provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union. Mr. R. Sim .said that he felt that the farmers should co-operate with the Government and bury the hatchet. The feeling between the primary producers and the Government was “not tco good,” but it could not be improved while incentive to strife was given.

There had been references to the faking of 'Certain action at the Dominion conference of the Farmers’ Union, said Mr.. Clearwater, but such references were made by a few individuals and did not represent the considered opinion of the gathering. The resolutions finally approved were those which mattered and they, rather than individual utterances, should have been broadcast. It was time that farmers and others dropped their differences and co-operated with the Government. The farmers, however, were not getting much co-opera-tion from the Government, and specially from “Uncle Scrim.” Mr. G. Stevenson: The Government should have replied to the Dominion president’s letter. The motion was carried unanimously.