FARMERS' UNION
'.' ANNUAL CONFERENCE. (Pm United Pebss AssociatwmtJ WELLINGTON, July 25, 1 At the Farmers' Union Conference the following resolution was passed:—"That am ', the future of the Empire depends on the friendly co-operation of capital and this union urges the holding of a conference between the various unions connected with farming and other industries to consider the adoption of a minimum living wage and a system of profit sharing by all classes ol labour." .... N The conference decided to bring prominently before the farmers of the dominion the necessity for their producing all the wheat possible during the war crisis. 4 It was also decided .to ask tho Efficiency , Board to represent to the Government the desirability of introducing en o'clock closing for the sale of alcoholic liquors for the period of the war and six months after. A remit urging the Government to proceed as early as possible with the scheme for harnessing the water power of the do-' minion was also carried; f ■. '■ V
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17067, 27 July 1917, Page 5
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