DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4508, 27 December 1922, Page 2

DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

THAMES VALLEY ORGANISED. TOT .EVEN BRANCHES' FORMED. A. E. Fear, organiser fol’ the Dairy Farmers’ Union has just terminated a tour of Thames Valley and HaurakiPlains, and reports great progress, ■the union getting whOle-hearted support. Mr Fear addressed eleven meetings and,formed eleven branches of ■ the Daily Farmers’ Uniop. In some branches up ,to 35 members signed up. Every district from Turua to Ppkeno Valley l has joined the union. At Turua one farmer stated tlh'at he had belonged to the Farmers’ Union for some years. They were dead and they, had not looked .after the diair.v farmers' interests. He had followed 'the Dairy Farmers’ JJnion activities for the past 12 months, and he felt sure that they were put to help the dairy farmers. T.hey were .a live body, and he would support them. Mr Fear stated that the Dairy Farmers Union was out to specialise in better marketing of our buttar and cheese and to assist in working up an export, trade with stew Zealand bacop and pork. Mr Heyward said the Dairy Farmers’ Union was a'ive te dairy farmers’ interests. They had had over £lOOO worth of pigs in the distirct and had not been able to sell them. Mr Fear had a buyer down in three days, and had cleared the district of bacon pigs. The Dairy Farmers’ Union was .alsp supplying,registered pedigree bulls of all breeds to dairy fa'rmers from breeders who were mcnibers of the union.

Branches of the Dairy Faimeis Union were formed at Ngatea, Kaihere, Patetonga, Kerepeehi, Kopuurahi, Pipirpa, Waitakaruru, Turua, Waerenga, Mangatangi, and Mangatawhiri Valley. The first monthly nXccting of the Mangateparu IJi'anch of the Daii y Farmcis’ Union was held on December 6, 1922, when the following resolution was passed : “We, the members of the Mangateparu branch of the Dairy Farmers’ Union, having mutually accepted the Dairy Farmers’ Union as the official organisation of the dairy farmer soldier settlors, and while recognising the efforts of the Returned Soldiers’ Association on our behalf in the past, call! on all such soldier settlers to combine and- uphold the body which is making your fight their fight.”