FARMERS’ UNION.
DOM INION EXECUTIVE,
POLITICIANS AGREE TO WATCH LEGISLATION.
WELLINGTON, May 7. The Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union held a meeting to-day, the .president, Mr Poison, presiding. ' Five members of Parliament —Messrs. McLeod Sykes, Masters, Maeplierson and Ransom attended, and after a short discussion in committee agreed to the wishes of the executive to watch the legislation affecting farmers’ interests as a non-party committee.
The Minister of Agriculture wrote that he could not hold out a hope that the charges for the inspection of bonednst would he borne by the consolidated fund. The Meat Industry Board advised that the arrangement for sending a single carcase of lamb to any address in Britain was still in operation. Tho scheme had met with remarkable succors. The Board was now receiving from the London office regular reports by the inspector recently appointed to watch the unloading of vessels at Home. Attention was drawn by the .Board to the sailing of inferior lamb as New Zealand, and that prosecutions had been ordered.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9799, 8 May 1924, Page 6
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