FARMERS’ UNION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1943, Page 3

FARMERS’ UNION

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. TO BE HELD IN WELLINGTON NEXT WEEK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held in Wellington next week. Two notices of motion, suggesting the adoption of co-operative ownership and control in industry wherever possible, as “the only apparent alternative to bureaucratic nationalisation,” are to be discussed. Remits on a wide variety of subjects will be before the conference. One expresses “no confidence in the present Government as one which offers any hope for the economic future of the farming community.” The Dominion president of the union, Mr W. W. Mulholland, said yesterday that, if this remit were approved, conference would have to consider what measures it should adopt. Under the heading of post-war marketing, the union is urged to consult other wool-producing countries of the world, to bring about more orderly marketing of wool after the war. Several remits urge that the farmers should receive payment in cash in full settlement of the 15 per cent increase in the price of wool, granted by the Imperial Government. Stating that the difference in prices received by growers and by consumers of primary produce handled by the Internal Marketing Division appears to be too great, an interprovincial conference remit suggests that the department should be thoroughly overhauled with a view to drastic reduction in departmental costs. North Taranaki suggests that the Government should be asked to make a survey of all lands for the purpose of bringing in lands that can be settled and of afforesting lands unsuitable for settlement.