PRIMARY PRODUCERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 19, 22 July 1927, Page 11

PRIMARY PRODUCERS

FARMERS' REQUIREMENTS

ARBITRATION COURT WEAKNESSES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

HAMILTON, This Day For the purpose of bringing about better understanding between tfie primary producers and the city dwellers, and with the object ot securing the support to a series oi resolutions. asking the Government to afford economic relief to the farmers a meeting organised by the Farmers' Union, was held in Hamilton last night. Mr. F. L^ 1"1"11 ' President of the Chamber of Commerce, presided over an attendance y^nJF'-/' PoIs °n, president o£ the i Tw Zealand Fanners' Union, opened his address by stating that the farmers were not pressing lor a retrenchment or a reduction of salaries in the Public Service; but for economy m public expenditure There n co.ts and for (he fostering of a pol*,i°{ i ° cconon >J-- Mr. Poison appealed tor support for the agricultural &n CoZ°f ■ RfeiTin^ to t'^Aroi atioti Court he said that the Court's constitution should be amended to provide Zt'l^^'T 5 in wa6<«,in industries that were not prosperous t;I- e'"T| etf^ paKSed the lowing resolutw tJ «"= meeting is of the opinion that the present system of protective dunf tie V?!°V S menac<= to tho prosperity „I ,h °°/ s H ™cre»ses the cost 'ol^^Xto^ric^ legislation to g,ve full effect to the Royal m mllTr n s •epo c rt ,on rliral cre(!its; that tiation Court is bicnkhi;; down under its own weight, and that it h ihe duty of the Government (1) to make the abolition ?h- Pt'n?? nCo- t0 «ni °n»l ß actually c re" | tive, (b) to give the third parties direct!v ih^™^ '" any d, ißpute« ds for <Sle Wines" X .pl;°.cll!ce'-s m the freezing Court!" g aPl)ear beforo th*