THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2677, 5 July 1905, Page 21

THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.

(From Cub Own Cokkespondent.) WELLINGTON, July 2. The fourth annual colonial conference of ihe New Zealand Farmers' Union is to commence on the. 11th inst. in Wellington. There are 63 items for discussion, including <the following :— " That the GoTernment be urged to so amend the Land Act as to give Crown tenants the option of purchasing the freeiold of their land at the original value and the payment of the difference between the 4 per cent, now charged on the L.I.P. and the 5 per cent, charaed to tenants with the right of pur-

chase"; "that all Government land put in the market in future be thrown open 011 the optional system"; "that the Land Act be amended so as to include the old de-ferred-payment sy^fceni " ; " that the endeavours of the unicn to secure the freehold ( bo strenuously continued." j The Auckland delegates will move — i " That every working man be compelled ; to pay an insurance fee to cover accident insurance, and that the Government establish a fund to meet the payments of onethird of the cost, the employer to pay onethird, and the employee to pay one-third."