'Cheaper To Graze Stock, Pay Fines'

Northern Advocate, 6 March 1947, Page 4

'Cheaper To Graze Stock, Pay Fines'

(P.A.) ROTORUA. This Day. I “The public finds it cheaper to graze stock and pay fines,'’ said Mr P. A. Kusabs (Rotorua) in moving a remit at the Municipal Conference yesterday that the second and third schedules of the Impounding Act, 1908, be amended by increasing the charges authorised for trespass, driving, impounding and sustenance of stock, and that the maximum penalty provided for in Section 17 of the act be substantially increased. The president of the Counties' As- ' sociaiton (Mr W. G. Belton) was invited to give his views. He said this subject had been before the Counties’ Conference for years. Disease had been brought to stock on farms through contact over fences. The motion was agreed to.

NEW AWARDS A motion to request the Government to introduce legislation making it mandatory in the framing of new awards that any variation in rates oi remuneration should take effect from the date of its being signed, was lost on the voices. Mr J. A. C. Allum (Auckland) opposed the remit as not being applicable in all cases. There were delays and they must in justice back-date the agreements or do injustice to their officers. . “I know of no more prolific source of irritation and strife in the present delays which occur between the time the parties meet and when the agree-

ment is ratified.” observed Mr W. J. Rogers (Wanganui 1. “There is very good cause now why the Arbitration Court should backdate agreements and it would be a cause of unrest if we supported a remit of this type.” MILK INSPECTION A request that local body or milk authority inspectors be granted ’ legal powers to carry out inspections on farms supplying milk for town consumption was the substance of a remit brought forward by Mr W. Kemp (Masterton). Mr H. Caro (Hamilton) said that the weakness of the act was that the vendor and not the supplier was prosecuted. A member of the Milk Council (Mr M. E. Lyons) said that the Agriculture Department v/as responsible for inspection of farms and of milk to the gate, where the Health Department became responsible The remit was supported. “ACTION,” the N.Z. monthly magazine discriminating readers take home. Photos, cartoons, sketches, interesting topical article. This month's issue, 1/-. rd/1