FARMERS' UNION MEETING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8052, 4 August 1904, Page 3

FARMERS' UNION MEETING.

normanbx Branch. i (Contributed.) # i A meeting of this branch was held in the reading room on Saturday, evening, > fifteen members being present. Mr Barker waa in the chair. A letter' from WfVEfa.ttpn was read re , fbe -insurance; sukgestitfg ■ . that buildings be insured to the" amount' of nine-tenths instead of two-thirds, as now proposed. Beiolved, That the letter be acknowledged and that the suggestion* be not enterProposed by Mr Alexander, seconded by .Mr Best, That in referent* to a letter / re the «nplbym«nt of a- vet., that an an- , nttal subsidy of £200 per' annum be raised * and guaranteed by ,tne, members of the FarnW Union in . ther Hawera County, the vet. surgeon to charge » small fee for services rendered; and allowed to - charge the' usual fee ' to' 'non-union . members.—Carried. In reply to a letter it < was resolved, ' That this branch does x not require an . organiser, but that several; defunct branches require looking after. Resolved, That a levy of Is per mem4 bet for the whob o! Taranaki district ; to recommended to .wipe out the existing 1 debt of the Provincial Executive. Votes of thanks. to the Chairman and ' Secretary concluded th* meeting.