FARMERS’ UNION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1941, Page 6

FARMERS’ UNION

MEETING OF PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE REMITS FOR CONFERENCE. FORMATION OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT URGED. Mr Andrew Linton, member of the Dairy Board, gave an address at yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union on problems facing the dairy industry. Mr Linton's address was taken in committee. The following remits, to be forwarded to the inter-provincial conference, were passed:— Featherston: "That the Government be asked to legislate for the issue and control of money by a national credit authority, this to consist of two representatives from the workers, one from the primary producers and one from the secondary industries, presided over b.y the Minister of Finance.” Greytown: “That this branch is in favour of the formation cf a National Government with no party/politics as being in the best interests of the nation." Alfredton: “That this branch considers that owing to the unforeseen marketing difficulties concerning our meat, owing to the war crisis, the Government must help the producers of all meat by giving a reasonable price and so put them on the same basis as the other primary producers of the Dominion.” “That for the duration of the war any member of the Farmers' Union should be entitled to shear and do shed work for other neighbours of the union without being required to hold a shearer’s uriion ticket or a general workers’ union ticket.”

, Martinborough: “That the protection of ferrets, stoats and weasels be reintroduced.”