FARMERS' UNION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 2

FARMERS' UNION

DECISIONS OP TARANAKt CONFERENCE. (SV TBLEGRAPH.— PR6SS ASSOCIATION.) HAVVERA, 22nd May. The fourteenth annual Taranaki Provincial Conference of tJio Farmers' Union was held at Pa-tea yesterday, when a number of remits were framed for the Dominion Conference. Theso comprised resolutions dealing with land taxation : (1) Asking for an improved system of valuing as against the present system, and (2) that all moneys paid to the State .for land be classified as im« provements. The conference also carried the following remits :— That the Minister for Agriculture be requested to introduce the semi-official testing of grade cows 5 that legislation be asked for providing that the Agricultural Department should have a registered brand for the use of anyone who desires to use it for the pui poses of branding cull dairy cattle and for no other puipose, and that there be provision prohibiting the offering fc public or private sale ot cattle ki branded as dairy stock, or with out proclaiming tlk cattle are bo br.iuded j that the Government be aske.) to romiroducp the Stallions Bill on tin same basis as that drawn up last suasion ami shelved by the Upper House, that all stock inspectors, should be qualu fied m the opeiation of speying cull cows and Imifpts Resolutions were carried stating thai in the interests of health and morality of rising manhood it would be undesirable to substitute a barrack system for that of camps, and further, that if po-» sible all drills should be held some time during the day. The conference adopted a remit asking the Government to amend the Valuation Act in the direction of having the whole of special loans classed a-s improvements, reduction of the repaid portion only being allowed at present. Mr. A. Hunter was re-elected president and Mr. 11. Dunn vice-president 5 delegates to the Dominion Conference, the president and Mr, E. Maxwell.