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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

The Auckland Farmers' Co-Operative Society, Limited

The Auckland Farmers' Co-Operative Society, Limited, 32 Grey Street, Auckland. Telephone 738. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Officers: Captain Mak Gill, president; Mr. S. A. Browne, secretary; and Mr. G. E. Thorley, manager. The capital of the Society is £1000, in £1 shares. In August, 1900, a number of eminent farmers, seeking to improve their position as tillers of the soil, and effect a long-needed improvement in the commercial position of producers and consumers, determined to bring to their aid the one thing needful to the public welfare—unity, or co-operation—and with this view formed what is now known as the Auckland Farmers' Co-operative Society, a body of producers and consumers who agree to buy and sell in a mart founded and maintained by their united powers. By this means they purpose regulating (within limits) the produce prices, and to become, as far as is possible or advantageous, their own masters. With such principles as the basis of its operations, the Society has experienced a well-deserved progress, and at the present time enjoys a very large membership.