FARMERS' MEETINGS.
AT'STRATFORD AND PAHIATUA, • Tho Taranaki Provincial Conforonco of tho Unioi was held-at Stratford yesterday, 'sayd j a Prdss message'. l /Rer solutions .were passed asking for better" railway facilities, for, trucking :fat stock ing regulation of of motor-cars j'dbpro- : cating'tho, purchase private;- estates .by tho ■ Government while. so much waste, land 'is awaiting 'settlement';.;: protesting ; ; against tho system of taxing farmers on unimproved .values/ and against tho continued increases being made' by thV Valuation Department on tho unimproved values of rural land ; urging the more effective carrying out of the Noxious Weeds Act; and groater secrecy of tho ballot. Mr. J. W. Jones was elected president. ' . . :r v A : Press Association; message from Pallia-. tua. states that at a meeting of. the. Pahia-tua-Akitio Agricultural and Pastoral Association', -Mr; J. >C. ■ Cooper was elcotcd president. A strong committee of. twenty-ono members was also appointed, which is,to report to tho as'io : : a "suitable; sitei for'a show ground. • .... /■' .-. ...
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 512, 20 May 1909, Page 8
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157FARMERS' MEETINGS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 512, 20 May 1909, Page 8
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