FATE OF REMITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 11

FATE OF REMITS

FARMERS’ UNION CURIOUS From Our Oxen Correspondent MORRINSVILLE, Friday. It sometimes happens that branches of the Farmers’ Union send remits to headquarters and are not told how their remits were received when they came before the Dominion conference of the union. At a meeting in Morrinsville. addressed by Messrs. R. D. Duxfield and J. B. Jordan, Mr. A. Topham asked if the Dominion executive could tell branches of the fate of their remits. “We want to be in a position to know how a remit was received by the conference,” he said. Mr. Jordan outlined the recentlyadopted scheme for the reorganisation of the union in the Auckland Province. This would give closer contact between the Dominion and provincial executives and the various branches. Each branch would send delegates to the sub-pro-vincial executive meetings, where the provincial secretary would be in attendance and would answer any questions and get any information that members of branches wanted. He would be able to explain how remits were received by the Dominion conference. The present scheme would enable every member of the union to feel that he was a unit of a single organisation. Mr. Duxfield said that at the periodical meetings of the Dominion executive in Wellington, the Dominion secretary always had full replies from Ministers and other officials to inquiries and suggestions passed on from various branches in the form of remits. If these replies -were not considered satisfactory they were sent back for fuller explanations. There was no mismanagement at the head office, for the secretary was very painstaking and efficient. The speaker admitted that in some cases branches might not have been notified of the fate of their remits, and thought replies received by the head office from Ministers and others should be sent to the branch w r hich had raised the question.