FARMERS’ UNION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 118, 11 July 1911, Page 3

FARMERS’ UNION.

DOM IXION CONFERENCE. TARANAKI REMITS. Following are the Taranaki remits to lie considered at the Dominion conference of the Farmers’ Union, which opens,in Wellington on duly 2oth ; “That the pasteurisation of milk and whey he made compulsory.” “That branches ho urged to experiment with manures, crops, and fodders.” ..“That in comparatively dean districts the Noxious Weeds Ac* he more rigorously enforced.” “That individuals who may have a Government mortgage over their properties have the -right, to insure in any reputable office.”

“That tiiis conference protests against auctioneers discriminating between dairy dry stock, the live per cent commission charged for dairy stock being excessive when sold in lots of five or more.” “That the Government he in god to take immediate steps to aholisu the extra charge made on impmted timbers carried on the New Zealand railways, particularly in reference to hardwood timbers, which arc largely used by local bodies.”

“That candidates failing to give pledges to support the three following questions in Parliament he :k t supported ■ by the Farmers'’ Union: (!) Freehold for land tenure; (2) tariff for revenue purposes only; and (3) freedom of contract.'"’ “That, seeing the great importance of the dairy industry in New Zealand, this conference urges dairy companies, A. and P. Associations, and branches of the -union, to use every effort to foster and encourage cowtestiug.”

“That the Government be asked to encourage some scheme, such as Mr Sedgwick’s, whereby suitable youths can bo helped to come from Great Britain to New Zealand as farm servants, it having been shown that the farming industry has been greatly hampered by the dearth of suitable labour.” “That this conference draw the attention of the Goyornmc.it to the fact that a large number of stallions are

leaving this .Dominion for die Com ■ monwealth of Australia, d 1 ' f which must bo certified as being fr< e from hereditary diseases; wlr I .> stallions that are rejected are allowed to travel tho country, and eventually have a deteriorating effect on horses.” “That v the Government lie asked to amend- the Land Act so as to give all Crown tenents the option of purchasing ' tho, freehold for their lands at the original value and the difference between tiro -I per cent now charged on the lease-in-perpetnity and the 5 per cent charged to tenants with the right-to-purchase, and in fuure all Crown lands shall be disposed of cn the optional system of tenure.” “'.['hat tiic present system of taxing farmers on the so-called unimp - ovod valuoi of their farms bo ab dm/icd; that farmers should pay tax on their income from land in the same proportion as money invested in other industries is taxed; the inmmr’s income to he calculated,.-at 5 per cent on the capital value of their holdings, allot deducting' all encumbrances in tho shape of mortgages.” “That with a view. to encouraging re-afforestation by private enterprise, to supplement that carried on by tiie State, more paricnlarly with the object of making tree-planting more general instead of being confined to a few localities, the Dominion Conference endeavour to promote legislation so as to exempt the plantation of an

acre in extent from rates and taxes and to provide a subsidy being payed to planters.” “That this conference enters an emphatic protest against the system nowin vogue on the New Zealand railways whereby two or more farmers taking sheep (rains for instance) from one station to any one' destination, cannot combine together to hire a truck or trucks and send them as one consignment; and would urge the Dominion Executive to bring the matter to the notice, of the Minister for Railways for his favourable consideration.”