FARMERS' INTERESTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21506, 1 June 1933, Page 11

FARMERS' INTERESTS

CONFERENCE DECISIONS WORKING OF CONTROL BOARDS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] "-MAISTERTON, Wednesday Thirty-fire remits were considered by the inter-provincial conference of the Farmers' Union to-day. ' Four remits, urging - a 2G per cent reduction in telephone rentals and rural mail tlelivery fees, were carried unanimously. The conference took a serious view of the ragwort menace, and urged tho Government to take immediate to have all unoccupied lands cleared of the weed. Bv a majority of four, a remit was adopted asking that a Parliamentary committee be set. up to investigate the working of the various control boards, and that an endeavour be made to amalgamate them all, together with tho ivoolgrowers' interests, under the New Zealand Shipping and Marketing Board. J Tlu conference carried unanimously ' a remit stating that it was a falso economy to curtail financial grants to the Cawtliiron Institute and simitar institutions working oil tho control of farm pests. A protest was mado against the proposed Central Reserve Bank legislation. Electric-power boards were 'irged to review thejjliolo of the working costs with a view to bringing every item of expenditure into line with present-day values, and to reduce charges to a, minimum consistent with sound business.