Voicing His Wants.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 5

Voicing His Wants.

THE MAN OK THE LAND. FARMERS’ UNION CONFERENCE. [Per Press Association.] Haw era, May 22. The fourteenth annual Taranaki Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union was held at Patea yesterday when a number of remits were framed for the Dominion conference. These comprised resolutions dealing with land taxation. (1) Asking for an improved system of valuing as against the present system of unimproved value, and (2) that all moneys paid to the State for land be classified as' improvements. The Conference also carried the following remits: —

That the Minister for Agriculture be requested to itnroduce the semiofficial testing of grade cows.

That legislation be asked for providing that the Agricultural Department have a registered brand for the use of anyone who desires to use it for purposes of branding dairy cattle, and for no other purpose, and that there he a provision prohibiting the offering for public or private sale of cattle so branded as dairy stock or without proclaiming the cattle are so branded. That the Government be asked to reintroduce the Stallions Bill on the same basis as that drawn up last session, and shelved by the Upper House. That all stock inspectors should be qualified in the operation of speying cull cows and heifers.

Resolutions were 'carried stating that in the interests of the health ,nd. morality of the rising manhood, it would be undesirable to substitute the barrack system for that of camps, and, further, that if possible all drills should bo hold sometime during the day.

The conference adopted a remit asking the Government to amend the Valuation Act in the direction of having the whole of special loans class:d as improvements, the deduction of the repaid portion only being allowed at present. Mr A. Hunter was re-elected president, and Mr R. Dunn vice-president; delegates to the Dominion Conference, the President and Mr E. Maxwell.