FARMERS' UNION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 22 May 1926, Page 16

FARMERS' UNION

;'?;- VARIOUS RESOLUTIONS

ADOPTED.

(By Tolegraph.—Press Association.)' ASHBUKTON, 21st May. The mid-Canterbury Conference of the Farmers' Union to-day passed a resolution urging the abolition of the present system of' motor taxation and advocating an ad valorum duty on all tires; also urging a compulsory national provident scheme; compulsory comprehensive insurance by motor-car owners; and that the present system of election of the Meat Board be abandon©^ emyy registered sheep swaer being given fl personal vote through wife post. The eonferenee algg favoured the standardisation, ot ths ska el wool paeka And the eempHlsery flehQi'iilng rf cattle, fegisterecT eafctle to be exempteML As regards the wheat" problem the conference carried a remit as follows: "That .as the declared policy of the present Government is adequate protection and encouragement of all Dominion industries, we submit: (a) that the production or manufacture of those articles which constitute the food of the people is the most essential industry of the country as it makes all other industries possible; (b) that many secondary industries are protected by duties to the extent of from 25 to 60 per cent, ad valorem; (c) that the present duties on imported wheat and flour are from 17 to 18* per cent, ad valorem; (d) that as a measure of justice to those engaged in the growing of wheat or the manufacture of flour import duties on these commodities should be brought more into line with thoselevied on goods which come into competition with tho secondary manufactures of tho country."