POLICY OF ACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1939, Page 5

POLICY OF ACTION

PROPOSED BY FARMERS’ UNION

NEED OF ECONOMIC REMEDY.

POLITICAL ORGANISATION TO BE CONSIDERED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day.

The following report of a discussion held in committee at the annual conference in Wellington last week ol the New Zealand Farmers' Union has been issued: —

The conference, after a long discussion in committee on what means could be used most effectively to counteract the progressive worsening of the farmers’ economic position, adopted the following resolution: — "That the Dominion executive be instructed to draw up a programme of action—either economic or political—to be placed before a special Dominion conference to be called immediately it deems advisable, having special consideration to the fixing of the guaranteed price or the Government’s expressed intention in respect to the findings of the Sheep-farming Commission.

"This conference is of the opinion that ultimately political action through the medium of a rural party is the effectual means of securing economic justice for lhe farmers and the community in general. Therefore the Dominion executive is instructed to examine the question from all angles with a view to the adoption by next annual conference, or sooner, if necessary, of concrete proposals to give effect thereto.”

The Dominion President. Mr W. W. Mulholland, commented that, this resolution would in certain circumstances. become of momentous importance, and impressed on delegates the gravity of the implications that it contained. It was evident from the very serious, attention that had been given to the framing of this resolution by representatives of every district throughout New Zealand that the farmers were determined to take much more positive action than they had been prepared to do hitherto, unless means were immediately forthcoming to rectify the very grave position into which the industry found itself drifting, and the disabilities which were coming upon it from a number of directions.