MARLBOROUGH NEWS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21484, 28 May 1935, Page 20

MARLBOROUGH NEWS

FARMERS' UNION MEETUgj REMITS FROM BRANCHES"""" ADOPTED

(BFECIAI. TO TEK PKISS.)

BLENHEIM, May 27.

The twenty-fourth annual provincial . conference of the Pelorus district ,oi „* the New Zealand Farmers' Union yfa? w held at Havelock on Saturday. TJMjJf

president, Mr R. F. Crispin, presided/ 5 and the election of officers resulted: ' President, Mr R. F. Crispin; vice-presl- , dents, Messrs A. H. Derbyshire and P. ~ E. Mills; secretary, Mr J. H. Saunder. son; auditor, MrW.E Derbyshire. The Rai branch's remit asking that in view of the shortage of farm labour, the single men's relief camps be closed in the summertime, where necessary, was adopted. A remit from the Canvastown branch asking that the Government royalty of nine pence a skin oa opposums be substituted by a tax on a percentage basis on the sale price of the skins was approved. A suggestion that a compulsory unemployment insurance scheme should be inaugurated was approved, and it was agreed that a remit be forwarded to the Dominion conference. It was explained that when the times improved, the money at present paid by workers into the dole could easily be paid instead into an insurance scheme to safeguard them against the time when unemployment might again arise.

Obituary Mrs Sarah Jane Brayshaw died yesterday at her home in Alabama road, aged 77 years. She was the widow of Mr Thomas Brayshaw. The death occurred yesterday at the Wairau Hospital of William Thomas Fowler, Weld street, late of the Wairau Valley, aged 82 years.

Personal

Mesdames F. C. Cook, A. W. McDonald, and E. M. Greenfield, who have been on holiday in Christchurch, re» turned home last evening.

Sports Results

The results of Rugby matches played on Saturday are:— Junior: Town 6, Country 6. Third grade: Central 12, Old Boys 8j Waitohi 35, College 0. Fourth grade: Opawa 38, College 0; Waitohi 41. Central 3. -

Hockey

Senior men: Wairau 3, Rawhiti 3;. United a bye. Junior men: United 3, Wairau 2. Senior women: Arotea 4, Picton 0; Beaver 2, Kowhai 0; Huia a bye. Junior women: Beaver 4, Arotea 3; Kowhai 0, Picton 0.

Inter-Club Golf

A team from the Blenheim Golf Club played an inter-club match with Picton on their links at Mount Pleasant yesterday. The Picton team won by 19 matches to 3, with two halved.

In a bogey match played at the j Blenheim Club's course on Saturday, A. N. Wallace (8) returned the best card, being all square.