FARMERS' UNION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 August 1918, Page 4

FARMERS' UNION.

FRIDAY'S RESOLUTIONS

(BY TELEGRAPH —PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 2. The Farmers' Union Conference passed a resolution expressing appreciation of the Parliamentary Committee's report upon the meat and shipping trust, and urging the Government to see that comprehensive legislation is passed in the ensuing session in order to give full legislative effect to the committee's recommendations.

Remits were adopted as follows: That the Government should be strongly urged to take the proper steps to reorganise the labor of the country and discriminate in conscripting labor from essential industries.

That, as farmers were given to believe that the British Government had promised the New Zealand Government certain interests in the Pacific Island phosphates, and we now understand that some large syndicate has purchased those interests, we therefore ask the New Zealand Government to make enquiries. That this conference approves of a scheme by which the producers and farmers' co-operative companies of the Dominion could own their own ships and eventually dispose of their own produce.

That the Government be urged to raise the price of wheat to at least 7s 6d per bushel for the. coming season, as under the present conditions it cannot be grown profitably for less.