FARMERS’ PARLIAMENT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 189, 28 July 1911, Page 8

FARMERS’ PARLIAMENT.

ELECTION O FOFFICERS. Wellington. July 28. At the Farmers’ I nion to-day the following officers were elected : —President. J. G. Wilson? Bulls); vice-president, G. Leadley (Ashburton); treasurer. W. Bireh (Marton) , auditor. W. Rutherford (Palmerston North); advisory committee: J. Cooper. W. Birch. I. Hockley, E. Campbell. A resolution was passed urging on the Government need of passing the long-delaved Local Government Bill. RURAL LABOUR PROBLEMS. There was some plain talkinc at the Farmers Conference to-day on the following motion being introduced by Mr. Evans, of <'.-inter bury : — “That this conference take into consideration the operations of the Arbitration Act with reference to its bearing on the industries of the Dominion as it is of opinion that it i« seriously retarding their development and the Government should lie asked to appoint a Royal 1 on;mission of practical men to • iiqimc into the operation, of the Act. The mover said if the workers did not have decisions by the Court rnaiic :n their favour they threw over the ( ourt and took the law into their own hands. The farmers were disturbed, not by the actual workers on the farms, but by their leaders Another speaker asserted that the whole farming industry was subject to paralysis l>y these agitators. Eventually the motion was amended and carried to the effect that an advisory committee take into consideration the operations of the Arbitration Act with reference to its bearing on industries and submit the results to the Minister of Labour.