FARMERS’ VIEW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 7

FARMERS’ VIEW

CO-OPERATION URGED WITH GOVERNMENT. INVERCARGILL RESOLUTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. December 27. "That this executive endorse the action of th? Dominion president of the Farmers' Union in forwarding a letter to the Prime Minister condemning the attitude of the Controller of Commercial Broadcasting in his attack through the radio on the primary producers of New Zealand," was a motion passed by the Southland provincial executive of (he Farmers' Union. Mr R. Sim said he felt that the farmers should co-operate with the Government and bury the hatchet. The feeling between the primary producers and the Government was "not too good," but it could not be improved while incentive to strife was given. There had been references to the taking of certain action at the Dominion conference of the Farmers' Union. said Mr B. Clearwater, but such references were made by a few individuals and did not represent the considered opinion of the gathering. The resolution-; finally approved were those which mattered and they, rather than individual utterances, should have been broadcast. It was time that farmers and others chopped their difl'eren-

ces and co-operated with the Government. The farmers, however, were not getting much co-operation from the Government, and specially from "Uncle Scrim.” Mr G. Stevenson: "The Government should have replied to the Dominion president's letter.” The motion was carried unanimously.