Function of Farmers’ Union.
The view that no legislation affecting the farmer should ever be considered by Parliament until the Farmers’ Union had passed comment on it and made its recommendations, was advanced by the conference chairman, Mr J. Livingston (Southern Hawke’s Bay) in his address at the opening of the annual interprovincial conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at Wellington yesterday. “We should not be called upon to give opinions and criticism after legislation has been framed,” Mr Livingston said. “You will thus see that I am asking you to place the Farmers’ Union directly where it ought to be—as the expert and direct adviser to the Government of the day.” He urged members to eliminate weaknesses in the organisation so that in the future it would be powerful enough, as a Parliament of farmers, to control the industry which belonged to the men on the land by heritage and just right.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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154Function of Farmers’ Union. Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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