FARMERS' UNION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 220, 10 June 1908, Page 7

FARMERS' UNION.

HAWKE'S BAY CONFERENCE, (liy TiafcciiAFH, —fßEsfl Association.) . Napier, June 0; .(Tho Hav/ko's Bay Provincial Conference'of the. Farmers' tJ.niou was held at Hastings tonight. There was a small attendances . Tlio Hactinga and Takipau branches iVcro .represented. , . . . 1 Mr. H. M. Sanders (the chairman), in a siiovt opeipiig address, said lib thought that the Shearers' Award would ho tlio causo Of farmers squeaking boforo very lone;, aild ho sa.v 110 reason why the. (jucstion of pay for farm labourers • could not be settled in tho same lnamier fis that of. shearers. . Mr. 11. M. Sanders was re-elected president. . Mr.' J. Beaston Was elected- delogato to. the Coloniar Conference. J Among tho remits carried were tho following:— ■ .. That tho Government be urged to settle the. Native land difficulty by applying tho principle of tlio Land for Settlement Act 16 nil imimpfovcd'Native Ifthd, but .to exercisfi a proper and philanthropic iinanco by paying interest ollly on proceeds, i That ; tho Provincial Hxeelitivo net' as all olectioii committed ftt tlio forthcoming olestio'.j and with the assistance of tho, branch committees, select from the persons nominate.] as candidates for the Hawke's Bay con* stituencos candidates favourable to the. platform of tho union, members to bo advised tcr Vbtp for, and make ovet'y effort 16 secure the return of candidates so selected. That the Colonial Executive 1)6 requested to iirgo tho Govcrniiiont in future to allow applicants for land all tho options of tenure provided in tho Lands for Settlement Act, whether ordinary Crown lands or land resumed for Settlement purposes'.