FARMERS’ UNION CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10658, 29 May 1913, Page 3

FARMERS’ UNION CONFERENCE.

NEXT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT WANGANUI. Per Press Association. Masterton, May 28. | The following remits were carried at the Wellington Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union That the Defence authorities be requested to alter the time for daylight parades from 10 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. in dairying districts. That in country districts post offices be not dossed for a half-day in the week as at present, and in lien of the weekly half-holiday, officials m charge be given an extra fourteen days holiday on full pay. That subsidies for inland mail contracts should .bo for the quick dispatch of the mails, and that mails should in all cases be sent to their destination without delay and have priority over passenger traffic. i'hat it is desirable in the inter--1 ests of farmers and workers to estabI fish a labour bureau in cour\©ofcion with each central branch of the union. That this conference endorse the meditated action of the County Councils in taxing motor cars, and tbfit: the money so raised by spent m * ’ of tli 6 arterial roads* lllti by weight, cars to , -ference strongly Thac tu « Co ** m the necessity urges upon ail Tar “ e^ s , operative of supporting fari23 ers (So ' companies. , _ , The election of officers resulted J J G Wilson, president; T vice-, president; W J Birch, tr.?ssurer; executive, as before, with the addition of A D McLeod, of Ma:',finborough, and H Morison, of GrejPtown, while T Hodgins, of Pahiatua, was deleted. It was resolved that the next provincial conference be held at Wanganui.

At' the conclusion of the confer- | ence, owing to the reported arrangement between the shipping companies and the Federation of Labour a strong movement was set on foot to - obtain general and concerted action among farmers for the purpose of getting their own shipping facilities for wool and other produce.