FARMERS’ CONFERENCE
REMITS CONSIDERED (Per Press Association.) • WELLINGTON, this day. The Farmers’ Union Confidence -today carried remits that preferential railway freights on imported goods be removed; that precautions against tool ami mouth disease should not be relaxed in any way at all; and that li Government be asked to rectify -t 1(1 anomaly in the franchise for the election of harbor, hospital, and powei hoard representatives by extending the full country franchise to rural voters. V- protest was entered against the burden of hospital and charitable aid rates. It was urged that the Government be requested to provide a larger subsidy, or find such expenses out ot national funds. First thing this morning the conference passed a resolution of confidence in Mr. W. J. Poison in connection with the attacks on him 111 a section of the press. . ~ (i With regard to daylight sa\mg, the conference decided to send at once a strong letter to Mr. Coates objecting to it, and urging that it be not passed into law again.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 11
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170FARMERS’ CONFERENCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 11
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