FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9187, 6 September 1906, Page 5

FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

THE UNION AND POLITICS. QUESTION OfImMIGRATION. CPBESB ASSOCIAIIOX.] | ' r WELLINGTON, September 5. I At the Farmers' Union -Obnfewnce today, Mr Phillips (Auckland) moved, That while the (Tnion avoid taking any part as i a Union in party polities,: every real political question may and should be taken an interest in> and be discussed at branch and other meetings. ' The President expressed the opinion that the line for the Union to follow was to take a side in politics only on the ground of principle, and when the principle wasi gained to resume a non-commit-tal attitude. Mr Clayton (Poverty Bay) urged that if tihe Union was to become a power in tihe land it must take decisive action. The motion was carried. « The' Union resolved that local bodies should be given power to appoint one of the assessors at the Aasessment Revision Court in districts affected, that no valuer should be appointed under the Valuation of Land Act unless he possesses local knowledge. Other reaolutaonm passed were: That questions of agricultural education for rural districts be kept prominently before the education authorities and the public ' ...'..> That a local government measure should be placed' on- tne>*Statttte Book at the earliest possible moment. That every endeavor be made to resist altering the,- voting in connection' with rural-local botf^- " That the 'attention of ' the Government be drawn to the shortage of faifm and' domestic labor,, and^ to the retarding of the devewpment'of the country thelSby, and that the (^yenimentbe^informed that this Council orgies . tjh4 ttdbptron of a strong f orwafrcV immigiJa^HiiTpolicy . TMt .the construction of public works by comparative- labor be diacoivtinued in favor of- construction by small contracts. Mr J. G. W?fc»n waa re-elected President for th» ensuing yeas. Mr W. J. Bryan, the prospective Democratic candidate fr • the American Presidency, says he intends to visit Australia and. New Zealand' in the near future, and before- he re-engages actively in politics j j (writes the London correspondent of a' Melbourne paper). He expects to be, able j to make the trip shortly after, his return jto the United States. Just now he is in the final stages of a prolonged European tour," and will return to" his" own "country in September. He has spent the greater part of two years in travel, ' When he has studied , the public life of Australia and New Zealand he will probably be the best informed man in America on . the working of foreign political systems. : He- has., lately interviewed sovereigns, ambassadors, the Pope, leading politicians, 1 and almost everybody else of note in ■ Europe. * BUSINESS RECORD. —J. Brunette, • ' watchmaker, etc., is giving a discount of 4s to 5s on cash purchases. The jobbing " department is carried on as usual — Bee > advt