CANTERBURY FARMERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 23 May 1919, Page 5

CANTERBURY FARMERS.

ANNUAL MZETINGS

UY IJiLJtGBAPH —I'KESS ASSOCIATION .) UiiKiSiXIHuKOH, May %}. At the jji^viuciai couicrexxoe ox the IWuit.* oiuon, neld to-day, th e folio winy; resoiut-ons v>*re carried: (1; liiac clie i>oruiiiion executive be mscruCLed to insist that tne whole of the meat purchased by the imperial Govemiutuf up to tue end or June 30 I iy^U, ue removed berore the beginning or me 1920-21 season; olnerwis e the interests oi the producer may be seriously ajreeced. (z) That steps be taken to enquire mio and remedy the existing shortage of railway rolling stock. (Sj mat we average prices of Ne w Zealand wools sold in .London be published ;in the Aew Zealand papers. Alter a long discussion in committee no decision was announced in regard to the following remit: That the proposal of the Nor In Canterbury Provincial Union that all storage space in the freezing works be taken over by the Government at once, and held under its control in the interests of producers, until the expiry of the present meat contract with the Imperial Government, be endorsed. At the annual meeting of th c North Canterbury Farmers'" Association the president (Mr D. Jones) in his address said that the season had been favorable especially for wheat growers. Experiments in growing lucerne proved that it could not be considered a commercial success on the bulk of Canterbury land. Though there was need for increased production, nothing definite had been done in connection with the establishing of a State. Farm for Canterbury. With regard to immigration, the union should moy e cautiously for a while. Th c population required that only a useful type should be assisted. Ourmg the year the contract for the purchase of meat by the Imperial Government was extended to Jun c 30, iy2o and, though the wisdom of this had been questioned by many farmers, events had proved it to be sound business on the part of producers