FARMER'S CONFERENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 28 May 1919, Page 8

FARMER'S CONFERENCE

WELLINGTON DISTRICT,

i (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 27. ii The Farmers' Conference passed re;eelutions as follows: ;j That an injustice is done to farmers' fiwives "engaged in actual* farm work ■■by refusing to allow deductions for jrGuch services, and the conference feufges the Minister of Finance to allow fa reasonable deduction to be made in the assessment of the income tax. -That the- Railway Department be requested to arrange for the faster carriage of cheese and butter from the — factories to cool stores In Wellington. That the attention of the Rauway Department ibe drawn to the fact that the Government grader reported to certain factories that their cheese had arrived-in cool stores In .Wellington ■with large pieces cut out of the cheese. That the attention of the Minister for Railways be called to the "unsatisfactory regulations exempting .the Department from responsibility for ( short consignments of cheese at the harbor boards' grading stores. That the Government be persistently pressed until it takes more active steps to put .the Department of Forestry in working order. That the State Forestry Department he asked to endeavor to establish plan- j tations on some of the sand wastes on ' Crown lands.