FARMERS IN CONFERENCE.
REMITS FROM WHANGAREI
(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WHANGAKEI, May 27. Tlie Tanners’ Union Conference concluded this morning. Itemits was carried urging the appointment of a noxious weed board; that the Main Highways Board should concentrate its energy and finance on the construction and maintenance of those highways which would most facilitate the increase of primary production; that all hospital boards be elected distinctly and separately from county councils, some of which in North Auckland act in a dual capacity; that when the Government resumes soldiers’ abandoned farms which were previously revenue earning local bodies should pay rates like private mortgagees; that an institute other than a prison be .set up to house unfortunate destitute persons on committal, and that it be self-supporting as far as possible; that farmers’ cooperative companies’ attention be drawn to overlapping of territories, resulting in mutually destructive competition in the' Auckland province, and request the consideration of ways and means of forwarding the higher interests of co-operation by eliminating unnecessary overhead expenses.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 May 1927, Page 3
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