FARMERS & POLITICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 5

FARMERS & POLITICS

NO DEFINITE DECISION YET. EXECUTIVE TO CONSIDER RESOLUTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. “It should be understood that the resolution adopted at the annual conference and reported today does not commit the Farmers’ Union to the formation of a political party,” said the Dominion president of the union, Mr W. W. Mulholland, when he was asked to explain further tin. report from Wellington. “It must not be taken that the union has decided to form a political party,” he said. “There is nothmg definite yet, and there will not be till the Dominion executive at its next meeting considers the resolution adopted at the conference.

“The resolution was not an operative one. but one creating proposals for investigation and decision. All aspects of the questions involved must be gone into. This may be done when the executive meets in the third week of August.” Explaining the reference to the sheep-farming commission. Mr Mulholland said that the conference expected the Government to take some action. If it failed to do so, farmers would regard it as a serious situation, which might require immediate action.

The resolution referred to was:— •’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 the farmer 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."