FARMERS TO UNITE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1921, Page 8

FARMERS TO UNITE.

TO ENTER POLITICS. A northern farmer visiting Wanganui informed a pressman recently that big efforts were being made in the Auckland, Waikato. Thames Valley, and Bay of Plenty districts to establish a Dairy Farmers’ Union independent of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. He contended farmers must*build up facilities for marketing their produce on a more economical basis than the system at present in operation, which had the effect of causing New Zealand Co-oper-ative Companies to cut each other’s throats. There was a lot of dissatisfaction in connection with the present system of marketing New Zealand produce in Great Britain, as producers did not know how their produce was being placed on the market. It was a known fact that the farmers of Devonshire would have to carry 300 cows to the acre to produce all the dairy produce sold under that name. That was probably where New Zealand butter went. The dairy farmers wanted a union that- would specialise in their own particular interest. For instance, the expenses of carrying New Zealand produce to the Homo market at the present time was very high. To be a successful organisation, therefore, the Farmers’ Union must go straight into politics, and that is where the new union, which it is hoped will encircle both islands, will differ from the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, which is non-political.