FARMERS' UNION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 8 May 1924, Page 3

FARMERS' UNION.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 7. At the meeting of the Dominion Executive of the Farmers' Union to-day the president (Mr. Poison) presided, and five members of Parliament (Messrs McLeod, Sykes, Masters, Ransome, and MacPherson) attended. After a short discussion in committee it was agreed to meet the wishes of the executive and to watch legislation affecting farmers' interests as a non-oarty committee.

The Minister for Agriculture wrote that he could not hold out a hope that the charges for inspection of bonedust would bo borne by the Consolidated Fund.

The Meat Industry Board advised that the arrangement for sending single carcases of lamb to any address in Britain was still in operation. The scheme had met with remaz-kable success. The. board was now receiving from the London office regular reports by the inspector recently appointed to watch the unloading " of" vessels at Home. Attention was drawn by the board to the selling of ,inferior lamb as New Zealand, and that prosecutions had been ordered