FARMERS’ UNION

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1931, Page 10

FARMERS’ UNION

CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS. [per press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Ostober 27. At a Conference of the South Island branches of the Farmers’ Union, held to-day, the following resolutions were carried: — “That the Government be urged to suspend all awards during the present economic stress ,and to amend the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. to provide for voluntary arbitration and compulsory conciliation.” “That in order to combine a balanced budget with a general reduction of taxation, which is essential to a recovery of prosperity, a thorough investigation of departmental expenditure should be made by a non-political and expert authority." “That, in order to reduce the costs of production, and the costs of living in New Zealand, a drastic downward revision of the Customs tariffs is urgently heded, and should be made as soon as the budgetary position will permit.” It was decided to commend the Government for its abolition of the garduated land tax, and for the departmental economies which it had made, and for the promise of a Royal Commission to investigate local body expenditure.