OTHER REMITS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 17

OTHER REMITS

Other remits passed wer&— Tliat individuals who raay_ have a Government mortgage over their properties have the right ho insure In any reputable office. That the Government be requested to. en-act that tho and charitable aid 1 >oa.ixls be the recipient of all auctioneers’, pnblichousc and motor vehicles’ license fees. That the conference brings under th© notice of the union the question of combines promoted to keen up the price of farmers* supplies, with a view to stigge'Hmg a remedy for same. Tliat tli© bants throughout the Dominical bo acked to extend their clcsing hour on Saturdays to 1 o'clock. That the union ar/poinfc a day to Ire called Farmers' Union dray, cm which sports,- picnics, or any form of amusomonis may bo held in the various districts, that will rive the formers, their wives and families an interest in the union, and thereby increase its membership. That this conference pretests against tho way in wliich the so-calkd co-op-cra-tivo works of the Dominion are. being carried out, and that this conference now respectfully desires the Dominion executive to urge upon the Minister for Public Works the desirability of again reverting to the “contract system of labour/’ ’That owing to the position of tho law relating to horse stealing, the union be asked to take somo Steps to have same amended at a« early a date as possible, the executive considering that the law, as at present, is very unfair to horseowners. That the registration of dogs should bo in tho baiidG of local Ixdies only, the present divided control between the local body and the Maori council being detrimental to the pioper registration of the dogs, and that local bodies should take steps to destroy hll unregistered dogs. Th© following remits were referred to the Wellington and Taranaki executives lospoctivoly to bo> dealt with locally : Wellington: That this conference is of opinion that the rate of commission (5 per cent.) on the sale of dairy stock, whether by auction or private sale, is an excessive and an unjust tax on. the dairy industry. Taranaki: That this conference protests against auctioneers discriminating between dairy dry stock, the five per cent, commission charged for dairy stock being excessive when sold in lots of five or more, Tho following remits wot© referred to tho county councils conference:— That county councils and road hoards bo urged to submit all technical disputes to arbitration on a petition being presented by, say, ten per cent, of tho rate* payors. That fho boundaries of counties and ridings bo adjusted to follow the lines of comnuinication and of interest, instead of arbitrary linos on paper, as is often the case at present. Tlio following Auckland remit was lost on the casting vote of the president That the Government bo urged to legislate in .tho direction of land agents* commission, so as to put a chock on land booms by land agents and speculators, in tho direction that land agents be/ licensed on tho same grounds as auctioneers aro licensed.