FARMERS' VIEWS
CONFERENCE DECISIONS
(By Telegraph—Press ■Association.) PALMERSTON N., May. 29. Two hours were occupied at the interprovincial conference of the Farmers' Union today in a discussion on currency and credit; finally a resc-^ lution was passed that the provisions of the Mortgage Corporation and Mortgagors' Final Adjustment legislation were- inadequate to restore financial solvency to the industry, and the conference decided to unite jwith' other districts and work whole-heartedly for the restoration of purchasing power and for further consideration of the nationalisation of internal credit and currency. \ The Government is to be-asked to rectify an anomaly in the franchise for the election of hospital and harbour boards by granting Parliamentary franchise to counties, as is enjoyed by towns. ■■'■■'•.- ■ ' ■ • '. A protest was entered against altera? tionin Summer Time as regulated from October to March. .....:..;■.■ It was decided to ask that farmers' lorries be exempted from the heavy traffic licence. • ■■•._•' The conference agreed with the principles of hospital and sickness insm> ance, and also endorsed the principle laid down at Ottawa in- preference - to the imposition of levies as suggested by the British Government.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 4
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183FARMERS' VIEWS Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 4
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