THE FARMERS’ PARLIAMENT.
RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO TAXATION, HOSPITALS AND UNEMPLOYMENT. PREPARATION FOR NEXT WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. The, Farmers’ Union Conference yesterday carried a motion, with few dissentients, That the farmers of the Dominion would not tolerate botn land and income tax being imposed at the same rime. The following resolutions vver' also ‘passed: — That this Conference ask the Government to convene a conference ot representatives of organisations dealing with and affected by hospital finance, with a view to determining a more equitable basis of hospital rating. That the conference deprecates the action of the Prime Minister in increasing the rate of wages for relief works, thereby making it more attractive to unskilled labour, with the result that, it is drawing men away from other occupations and accentuating the unemployment problem. That, in the event of any war involving this nation, mobilisation shall extend not only to human life, but to all resources, and that machinery f or this purpose be designed at once. This was carried by one vote.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 July 1929, Page 5
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