FARMERS’ UNION

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1935, Page 2

FARMERS’ UNION

SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE. [i’Eß PRESS ASSOCIATION.] INVERCARGILL, May 31. Th annual provincial conference of the Farmers’ Union was held to-day, and will be continued, to-morrow. Tlie opening ceremony was performed by the Dominion President, Mr. Polson, who also delivered an address. In the afternoon remits were carried supporting other organisations in the protest against the Government’s action in diverting the funds of the Highways Board, to uses other than reading, and demanding that all special taxation levied for reading and maintenance purposes, should be used for such purpose only, and, one urging a substantial reduction in the railage charge, on cheese.

The monetary system was discussed on a remit, urging the Union to call upon the Government to concentrate in co-operation with the Governments of the Empire upon finding a monetary system, which would enable the peoples of the world to enjoy the vast abundance which technological improvements had made available, but the remit was lost by 27 to 26. Mr. George Hamilton was elected as President. MEAT QUESTION. INVERCARGILL, May 31. Arguments for and against a levy and a restriction respectively on the export of New Zealand meat to Britain were advanced at the Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union today, as the result of a remit from, the Orawaia branch advocating opposition to a levy. An amendment had been moved, but the motion and the amendment and -any further discussion to them were quashed by the Dominion President, Mr Polson, who returned to the meeting while the question was being debated. After he had appealed to those present not to embarrass the New Zealand delegates in London by carrying any resolutions, the remit was withdrawn by a vote of the meeting.