FARMERS' UNION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 13

FARMERS' UNION

REMITS CONSIDERED

QUESTION OF FRANCHJSB

To-day's session of the ]?ainKa>s*i Union Conference discussed remits cfesW ing with educational and general in*?*: ters. ■

It was decided to oppose any move-toN centralise the control of schools.

Other remits dealing with various < educational matters, chiefly affeetinljj backblock schools, were withdraws:! after the XHreetoT of Education, m; T. B. Strong, had explained certaiife matters about which the conference 3&> sired information.

The conference decided to urge ugonii the Government the necessity of tii?^ viding that, when a vote is takea <$a£ the question of a half-holiday, all a^dj tions of the community living in -kfi* borough concerned be compelled to 08$ serve the day appointed by ballot. That the Upper House should b* elected as provided by the law now oi'i the Statute Book was a remit ■whic&: was carried. To the Dominion exeaiwt tive was referred a remit affirming tn* principle of preferential voting, as were also remits dealing with anomalies' in the franchise for election to harbour* hospital, and power boards. That it should be an offence for an*ss one to commit a trespass on. pwra^f land with any iog, or with any ne& gun, or other appliance, was the opiiy ion of the conference, it being leeom* mended that the words "in search <ht pursuit of imported game or astxvtf game" at present in the Act- be d<& leted. A remit suggesting the iemo>?sE of protection from the pukeko wtS lost.

Two remits laving reference to maim highways read as follows:—That ik 11 view of the increasing burden of county* rates this conference again urges fnaS Government to nationalise all main »$ terial highways, and that protest b'<* made against the raising of a loan fo3 mam highways without a vote of tfS ratepayers. The former was lost by M votes to 33 and the latter was also d£* feated. "