N.Z. MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1926, Page 4

N.Z. MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD.

ELECTION OF PRODUCERS’ PEPBESKXTATIA'ES,

An advertisement apjKiars in our advertising columns dealing with the election of two producers’ representatives on tho New Zealand Meat Producers Board.

The Beguiitious under which tbe election is conducted provide that the various districts shall elect twenty-five delegates who will constitute an Electoral Committee which will' assemble in August and elect the producers’ 10presontatives.

In order to promote greater interest in the election, and so that the candidates would be known by a. greater proportion of the electors of the district which they were nominated to represent, the Board last year reduced the size of the various districts, thus increasing the number to ten districts instead of'six. Tile number of delegates and the boundaries of the various districts are set. out in the advertisement. The latest official sheep returns (which at present are those at 30th April. 192 b) shall be the electoral roll. Every sheep-owner on this Pst having one hundred sheep or ever shall be entitled to vote tor delegates to the Electoral Committee.

Nominations for delegates on tbe Electoral Committee or for producers’ representatives may be made by any two shcep-farniors appearing on tbe official sheep returns ns owning not less than one hundred sheep. Forms of nominations are obtainable at toe Board’s Office. AYellington. Nom at,ions for delegates to the Electoral Committee will be received at the Board’s Office. AYellington, up to noon on tho lblli July, 192 G, whilst nominal ions for producers’ representatives on the Board will be received up to noon in the 12th August, 1926.

Tn accordance with tho provisions of the Afoot Export Control Act. the members of the Board wlio are to retire on August, are Messrs T. A. Duncan, Hunterville, and Adam Hamilton, Invercargill. These gentlemen oiler themselves' for re-election as producers’ representatives on the Board.