DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 July 1924, Page 7

DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

r-t THE MORATORIUM. (BE TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N , July i; At the' annual Dominion conference or the JS Zealand Dairy Farmers’ bmon the following resolutions were carried:— ‘ That | the moratorium be extended over five yea,rs, .thereby. providing for gradual extinction and to provide safe.gUcVids to avoid unnecessary hardships.” ■ I hat the moratorium be gradually lifted and a. bona fide producer be given the first right of talcing-up, his property at any. reduced prices - submitted to outsiders, and that a cheaper form of appeal than the Supreme Court be provided for in case of hardship.”

A delegate asked wdio was going to be the “Charlie Chaplin’’ who would go to- urge both remits on the; Government and which would take precedence? The chairman: “We shall send .both forward.”

A delegate: “It is Gitbeitiau.” Subsequently the following motion was also carried: “That should the moratorium be lifted the Government should come to the assistance of farmers by making provision to borrow on the London market at least £25,000,000 lor advancing t-iirough the State Advances Department.” The- following motion was also carried: “That it is the opinion of the conference that all dairy factories should grade milk and cream and pay for it according to quality, and that the raising of the minimum points for first grade from S 8 to 90 be insisted on by the dairy division.”