FARMERS' POLICY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18195, 14 September 1922, Page 8

FARMERS' POLICY.

QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WEL.LTNOTON. Wedmwntay. The Donrnion executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterday discussed a resolution put forward by the president, Mr. W. J. Poison, that a circular be aent to country candidates for Parliament asking them to support the four cardinal planks of the union's pjatform, and to secure their answers to questions as follow : — (1) That you will support a genuine agricultural banking system embodying such features as the Bavarian system possesses and capable of affording facilities for more liberal and cheaper finance to producers; (2) that you will support legislation giving tho various divisions of primary producers tho right to establish compulsory co-operative marketing system ; (3) that you will actively assist in passing legislation for the establishment of a producers' shipping line supported by reasonable subsidies from trio State and with safeguarding State supervision ; and (4) that you will vote for tho radical reductiongjin taxation, and con--scquently for- giv#ier economy in the administration of fne country. " If we make enough noise we will get pledges from all the candidates," said fife president. Colonel T. W. McDonald said he, as a candidate for Wellington East, a city constituency, was prepared to give his pledge, and he did not see why all city candidates should not be asked the same ; questions. Mr. A. E. Harding (Auckland) objected to the shipping subsidy and to the request lysine mads to the city memberß. The President: Almost every countiy — France, America, and Japan—have given the subsidy. Mr. Harding: Britain still rules the waves without a subsidy. After discussion it was decided, on the motion of Mr. Harding, that a sub-com-mittee, comprising Messrs. G. P. Marshall, G. .?. Anderson, and the president be empowered to draw up a suitable set lof questions to bo submitted to candidates.