F.U. Conference Concludes

Northern Advocate, 26 May 1938, Page 7

F.U. Conference Concludes

t Per Press Association.—Covyrighr.] WELLINGTON. This Day. The annual interprovincial conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, which opened in Wellington on Tuesday, concluded yesterday. The attention of the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, was drawn to the fact that farm labourers were still being absorbed into Public Works by the simple process of leaving farm work and registering as unemployed. A resolution was carried suggesting that in compiling returns of income for taxation purposes a loss sustained in one year should be allowed to set off against income in the succeeding three years, for all taxation purposes, and that in returns of income from farm sources, losses by fire, flood or disease be allowed as a deduction from gross income. The resolution added that the recent Hawke’s Bay flood and facial. exzema outbreak in the Waikato were, striking evidences of the justice of the request. ' The Government is to be requested to enact legislation enabling electric power boards and the Public Works Department to provide an insurance fund to meet claims for compensation arising from the loss of livestock caused through breaks or faults in power lines.