FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 114, 17 May 1906, Page 3

FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

THE OVERBURDENED FARMER

REVENUE TARIFF

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ELTHAM, May 17. The Farmers' Union Conference passed resolutions that a, representative of the farmers should have a seat on Assessment Courts, and that the Conference views with alarm the statement lately reported to have been made by the Premier in regard to taxation, and protests against the proposal that further taxation be placed on the already overburdened farmer. _ A discussion occurred on the tariff question, and a resolution was passed that the only fair and equitable way of altering the tariff would be m the direction of a revenue tariff, with preference to British goods carried in British bottoms.