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Federated Farmers - Latest News [Page 186]
E-Commerce Pointless For Rural Small Businesses
Tuesday, 14 November 2000, 10:12 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Telecommunications spokesperson Tom Lambie said the call by the Information Minister, Hon Paul Swain, for small businesses to study up on e-commerce was ignoring the sad reality of rural telecommunications. More >>
Biosecurity Failures Must Be Halted: Fed Farmers
Monday, 13 November 2000, 2:09 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Acting President Tom Lambie today called on the Government to ensure that its biosecurity agencies have both adequate funding and tightened management procedures. This follows exposure of the Quarantine Service management's failure ... More >>
Dairy Farmers Urge Holding Off On Peak Rights
Monday, 13 November 2000, 8:41 am | Federated Farmers
A meeting of the Dairy Farmers of New Zealand's Rotorua/Taupo Section has passed a resolution urging all dairy farmers not to support New Zealand Dairy Group's Peak Rights or Kiwi's Co-operative Dairies Ltd's Capital Notes proposals until there is ... More >>
Federation Investigates Rural Fuel Rip-Offs
Friday, 10 November 2000, 1:17 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is asking its members to check if fuel retailers are overcharging them following massive fuel price rises and falls. The federation is investigating via its members if fuel retailers are using the volatility of fuel prices to rip ... More >>
Sharemilkers To Continue Contest
Monday, 6 November 2000, 11:22 am | Federated Farmers
"Disappointed but understanding," is how the Chairman of the Sharemilkers' Section, Conall Buchanan, described sharemilkers' reaction to the Bank of New Zealand's withdrawal from national sponsorship of the Sharemilker of the Year contest. More >>
Sponsorship Change Was Inevitable
Monday, 6 November 2000, 11:21 am | Federated Farmers
Dairy Farmers of New Zealand Chairman Charlie Pedersen said that it was inevitable that the Bank of New Zealand would wish to wind back its sponsorship of the Sharemilker of the Year competition. More >>
NZ Meat And Fibre Producers Council Meeting
Friday, 3 November 2000, 1:14 pm | Federated Farmers
New Zealand Meat and Fibre Producers Chairman Chris Lester announced that the federation's New Zealand Meat and Fibre Producers Council meeting is being held in Wellington on Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 November. More >>
Federated Farmers Backs Better Apprenticeship
Friday, 3 November 2000, 10:34 am | Federated Farmers
Education spokesperson Roger Barton presented Federated Farmers' submission on the Apprenticeship Training Bill to the Education and Science Select Committee today. More >>
NZDG To Vote On Sharemilkers Owning Shares
Thursday, 2 November 2000, 4:13 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Sharemilkers' Section Chairman Conall Buchanan said today that he is extremely encouraged by news that NZ Dairy Group will put sharemilker shareholding to the vote at a special suppliers' meeting on 15 December. More >>
Federated Farmers Leaders In Canada
Friday, 6 October 2000, 5:19 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers President Alistair Polson and Chief Executive Tony St. Clair travel to Banff (Alberta, Canada) to take part in the 4th Cairns Group Farm Leaders Meeting being held in parallel with the Cairns Group Ministerial Meeting. More >>
Farmers Should Not Pay For Asure Nz's Action
Friday, 6 October 2000, 1:37 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers wants the Government, not farmers, to foot the bill for any legal action or compensation resulting from Asure NZ's treatment of its staff. More >>
FFNZ Calls For Rural Telecommunication Taskforce
Wednesday, 4 October 2000, 3:41 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Telecommunications spokesperson Tom Lambie said today that the federation wanted a Rural Telecommunication Taskforce to be set up as quickly as possible. More >>
Electricity Review Leaves Rural NZ Out In Cold
Wednesday, 4 October 2000, 3:40 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Vice President and energy spokesman Tom Lambie said today that the Government's plans for the electricity industry would do very little for rural New Zealanders, and asks more questions than it answers. More >>
New Health System Flawed: Federated Farmers
Wednesday, 4 October 2000, 3:39 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers' submission to the Health Select Committee today spelt out the rural organisation's deep concerns with the Government's health reform legislation. More >>
Handling The Employment Relations Bill
Monday, 25 September 2000, 9:08 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers have been inundated with farmers attending their "handling the Employment Relations Bill" courses. More >>
Green's Policy Hurts New Zealand's Low Paid
Tuesday, 12 September 2000, 4:41 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is imploring the Green Party to gain a better understanding of New Zealand's international trade and economic reality, following two Green Party MP's taking part in anti-trade demonstrations in Melbourne. More >>
Farmers Flock To Employment Relations Seminars
Wednesday, 6 September 2000, 5:05 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers' Employment Relations Seminars are proving very popular with farmers. The first three meetings - in Te Awamutu, Paengaroa, and Morrinsville - have attracted over 230 farmers. More >>
Bailey Re-Appointment Shows Free Trade Committment
Monday, 4 September 2000, 1:05 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers President Alistair Polson today congratulated the Government on its decision to retain the position of Special Agriculture Trade Envoy, and the subsequent re-appointment of Malcolm Bailey for a further year. More >>
Border Review Result Win For Federated Farmers
Thursday, 31 August 2000, 8:47 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers today described the continued separation of the Government's Customs and Quarantine Services as a victory for its efforts. More >>
Economist's Claims Nonsense
Friday, 25 August 2000, 3:41 pm | Federated Farmers
Charlie Pedersen, Chairman of Dairy Farmers of New Zealand, has called the idea that dairy farmers are stealing money from the economy as bizarre. More >>
