The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1914. FARMERS' UNION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 12 May 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1914. FARMERS' UNION.

Tha Taranaki Provincial Conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union ia to bo held this month at Patoa, and its proceedings will naturally be of considerable interest to the tanning community in these parts. The order paper, though it does not contain a very large number of remits, puts forward plenty of debateable matter, and there are some subjects included which are not likely to be dismissed without a good deal of discussion, Amongst other matters the Executive aska the Conference to pass a resolution requesting Parliament to amend the Auctioneers’ Act, so that provision be made that it shall be compulsory that the names of vendors and buyers of stock at public auction sales shall be announced. Touching taxation, the Executive brings forward a motion that it cannot see any valid reason why money invested in land should be taxed differently to money invested in other industries ; and, with regard to land improvements value, that all moneys paid to the State for land to be classified as improvements. It is not surprising to find that the Executive should also have something to bring forward with regard to motor traflic, which undoubtedly is a modern development which has come to stay, and which must supersede every other means of ordinary carriage and locomotion. The |motion, to be debated is: ‘‘That owing ito the great change in tha means of I transit brought about by the general, I ns* of motor traction, it ha strongly urgail •» the Geveiuateat, the necessity af increasing the subsidy to local bodies for the formation and wainlen-

aneo of main roads, such subsidy to j be granted only iu proportion to ex-j penditure incurred.” Of course Taranaki Farmers’ Union order paper | would be complete without some slight; attention to the Goddess Oow, and on this occasion we find that the Executive will ask that the Minister of Agriculture be requested to introduce the semi-official testing of grade cowsj and at a lesser fee than that charged for purebreds. Outside branches have not been very active in forwarding matter for discussion, Hawera apparently being most in evidence with two motions, both highly imperialistic. The first asks that it! be a recommendation to the Government that its efforts shall be continued for making arrangements with the Imperial Government whereby the Dominion shall pay its subsidy towards the Fleet and whereby the Fleet shall be. adequately represented in these waters. The second motion from this branch is to the elieet that it be a recommendation to the Government that it requisition the Imperial Government to form an Imperial Council upon which it shall have its representative, such Council to be superior to the British Cabinet. The only other motion set out is from the Eltham and Otakeho branch, which briefly draws attention to a matter of some moment and asks that the Noxious Weeds Act ho enforced. Of course many other subjects, in addition to the ordinary routine business, will come forward and the session should bo a profitable on«.