FARMERS' UNION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 399, 17 May 1922, Page 6

FARMERS' UNION.

CONFERENCE AT WANGANUI. (Per Pre«s Association.) WANGANUI. May 15. The annual conference of the WellingtonWairarapa Farmers’ Union was opened today. Mr il. Morrison presiding over a large attendance ol delegates. Ihe following remits were carried; 1 bat the intor-provineial conference be requested to give consideration to the matter of excessive and other charges on wool: /that the Government bale the wool called graft by the selling brokers; that the former arrangement of 14 days’ prompt with regard to the payments for wool sold be revetted to; that ‘the Woolhrokcrs’_ Association ho requested and urged to bring down legislation to make stock and station hi ms liable for payment on sales of live stock made through them or their agents tor forward delivery; that an export hoard should ho formed to represent every branch of the. farming industry. Additional remits were earned as to - lows:—(1) Urging the abolition of compulsory preference to unionists; (2) objecting to the Railway Department prohibiting its servants assisting to load cream cans; (6) drawing the attention of the Railway Department to the penalty imposed on Now Zealand freezing works by the high freight on frozen moat compared with live stock; (5) urging a reduction of railway freights. _ General complaint was made of damage done to crops by hares. It was pointed out that in some localities reafforestation was impossible ovving to the damage done to young trees, and it was said tlio pest was as bad as the rabbit. It was decided to take slops to have the protection ot tares removed.