FARMERS UNION

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1932, Page 6

FARMERS UNION

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES'.

BUSINESS' AT CONFERENCE.

f ßy Telegraph —Per Press Association)

WELLINGTON, February 4.

A proposal that all primary industries in New Zealand should he represented in one organisation, to be known as the Primary Producers’ Federation Executive, was reierred to by the Dominion Executive oi the Farmers’ Union, to-day.

It was suggested that there should he no interference with the working of the present organisation, which would discuss all matters referred to them, hut that all matters relating to national finance, rating, taxation, industrial matters, marketing of produce, and unemployment, should be submitted to the Primary Producers’ Federation Executive for consideration, and that the Executive would then forward its decisions to the Government as representing the views of primary producers of the Dominion. The proposal was that representation on- the Executive should he of tne Farmers’ Union, Sheep-farmers’ Federation, Farmers’ Federation, Fruit Growers’ Federation, Poultry Association, Flax Producers’ Association, Honey Producers’ Association, and Pig Breeders’ Association. The matter was referred to the Committee, which was authorised to proceed as it thinks fit. Government’s action in entering into a trade treaty with Belgium, without consulting the Farmers’ Union was criticised bv the Dominion Executive of that organisation to-day. Concern was expressed in a letters from Auckland branch of the Union, that the recent treaty was sprung so suddenly on the public. The branch suggested that proprietary interests handling farm produce which was not usually exported by farmers themselves, had received first class treatment, and that practically no consideration had been given farm products, in which any real proportion of value went to fanners. Mr Feisst (Waikato) said it was another instance where the Government had ignored the Farmers’ Union, and associated itself with the manufacturers and importers associations. Ho moved that, a protest he made to the Government. This was seconded by Mr Aid I sop, but the motion was lost. OBJECTION LODGED. WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. A motion passed to-day by the Dominion Executive of the Farmers’ Union, enters emphatic protest against the Parliamentary Economic Committee ignoring the Farmers’ Union by not giving it the opportunity to state evidence on behalf of farmers of the Dominion. The Secretary said that he had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister asking that the Union should be heard.