N.Z. PRODUCE IN LONDON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 311, 26 May 1911, Page 5

N.Z. PRODUCE IN LONDON.

LOOKING AFTER OUR INTERESTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Representatives from the farmers' unions and agricultural associations in the Auckland province met together today and discussed the question of the handling of New Zealand produce in London. Mr. ,T. E. Makgill, vice-pre-sident of the Auckland Provincial Farmers' Union, said the question was one of the utmost importance to producers in New Zealand. They moved the following resolution:—''That a committee of producers he set up to co-operate with other committees appointed by public meetings in various parts of the Dominion to attempt to improve the conditions under which New Zealand produce is received and distributed in Great Britain." Tn support of his motion, he read extracts from a speeeh on the subject by Mr. Lysnur, in which he referred to having seen bales of wool soaking in the barges on the Thames; also in the storesrows of bales which had been damaged by leaky barges. This was afterwards sold as damaged wool, and the owner in New Zealand did not know why he got such low prices. Major Lusk said he thought the conference would agree that an improvement was very desirable. Farmers had been neglecting their own interests and had evidently expected other people to look after them. It was quite time they appointed representatives from themselves to see that their affairs were not neglected. Other delegates strongly supported the motion, which was carried.