FARMERS CONFER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1930, Page 6

FARMERS CONFER

THE AUCKLAND PROVINCE

ADDRESSED BY MR. POLSON

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WHANGABEI, 20th May. ,'i'hc animal conference of tho Auckland Provincial Farmers' Union commenced to-day, ninety delegates attending. Tho president, in his annual report, dealt with a variety of topics. Speaking of unemployment, ho said the only euro' was reduced costs. In tho meantime • a palliative would bo tho organising of bodies of men to break in land I in readiness for settlement. Dealing i with reduced prices for primary products, ho said it was evident that it was impossiblo for New Zealand to regulate London prices, but it should be possiblo to cut "out some of tho costs of marketing and some of tho speculators' profits. . . . Some thirty remits were dealt with during the day. It was urged that compensation should bo paid for improvement leaseholds, and it was decided that the present methods of land valuation should be replaced by a system uniform to all Government Departments. The question of noxious weeds was discussed at much length, and it was resolved that the Crown should be put on the same footing as. private landowners. This evening Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., Dominion president, addressed the conferonco on the linos of his southern speeches, urging a readjustment of tax* ation, removing it from the necessities of life and placing it on luxuries, also increasing the taxes on the totalisator and hotel takings.