FARMERS’ UNION
REQUESTS TO GOVERNMENT
[pee press association.]
WELLINGTON, October 27
The Farmers’ Union Executive carried remits that the Premier and the Minister of Native Affairs be approached and urged that all tenants on Native leasehold properties be treated in a similar manner to lessees on European lands. That an emphatic protest be made to the Native Trustee against the excessive costs of the renewal of leases, recently issued in respect of lands or Native reserves.
That the Government be asked to reinstate the 12J per cent rebate on county rates.
That the principle of voting, which applies to County Councils, apply also to Power Board elections.
That in regard to reducing land valuations, the Government be asked to pass legislation permitting a percentage reduction on the last valuation of the county. Remits were also passed protesting against the request of the Chambers of Commerce to the Government to deprive the Meat and Dairy Boards of the rights whereby they control shipping and marketing, and protesting against the railway concession rate on butter for distances from 175 to 340 miles being used, except for export butter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 October 1932, Page 2
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