FARMERS CONFERENCES
TUES 3 ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, May 29. The Provincial Conference of the /Farmers’ Union was continued , to-day. A motion that a letter he forwarded to Mr Irvine, Premier of Victoria, placing on record the union’s appreciation of his action, in terminating the Victorian railway strike, was negatived, iriany members holding the matter to ho outside their province. A motion was canned deprecating the proposed compulsory preference to trades unionists.
The conference resolved that the Government be asked not only to impress on owners the necessity of clearing their own lands'* of Californian thistle-down, hut also that the Government take steps to eradicate the pest from Crown lands. Also that the Government should make experiments as to the best methods of doing so, for the general benefit of tho farming community.
Tho following motion was carried,, ” That with a view to counteract tho damage gone to farm workers by professional agitators, this union will take all possible steps to assist farm labourers to become farmers and employers.” Mr 6. W. Headley, the retiring president, was presented with a gold sov-ereign-case in recognition of his services to the union. Mr J. Harding was re-elected provincial secretary.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4978, 30 May 1903, Page 5
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