FARMERS' UNION.
TIMARU, April 6. The executive of the South Canterbury Branches of the Farmers' Union has decided to convene a conference of branch chairmen and local members of Parliament to discuss several matters on which the union considers legislation or administrative action is required. These include an experimental farm for the district, the question of differential railway rates (these affect the railage of produce from Oainaru, favouring Port Chalmers as against Timaru), the importation of domestic servants, and the shortage of trucks. Regarding the last-named, the president remarked that the argument that it would not pay to keep a lot of trucks to meet the requirements of the busy season might be used by threshing mill owners, when it would be seen to be ridiculous. The grain season being a long one from north to south, the trucks would not be long idle. The executive was unanimously of opinion that the department's estimate of the average grain yields was below the mark for South Canterbury. It should be at least 35 bushels for wheat and 50 bushels for 0.-ita-
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Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 21
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