PRIMARY PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8

PRIMARY PRODUCTION

SEAT ON COUNCIL. RESIGNED BY FARMERS' UNION MEMBER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON. December 11. Acting upon the direction of the ■Waikato sub-provincial executive of the Farmers' Union, the chairman, Mr G. T. Crawley, today resigned his seat as representative of the Farmers' Union on the Waikato District Council for Primary Production. His resignation was accepted with regret at a meeting of the council in Hamilton. , "If the Government had shown any desire or intention to accept the cooperation of the appointed representatives of the primary producers it would have facilitated the measures suggested. which would ensure increased production almost immediately and for certain next season,' said Mr Crawley. "I can assure the council,” he added “that members of the Farmers' Union, as a patriotic duty to our country in this time of peril, will do all in their power to keep up production and to increase it, even though under the extremely difficult and unjust circumstances imposed on them by the Government.” There were several reasons why the Farmers’ Union had decided to withdraw its representative. One was that it considered the payment to farmers not sufficient to enable them to pay competitive wage rates. The Government realised that the farm labour problem was hindering the farmer from maintaining production. let alone increasing it.