FARMERS PROBLEMS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 24 May 1928, Page 6

FARMERS PROBLEMS

HAMILTON CONFERENCE. REMITS! PASSED. fress Association —Copyright HAMILTON, This Day. The railways are being used surreptiously for protective purposes without the authority of Parliament." •said Captain' Ritsworth (Ehitaia) when protesting at the provincial farmers' conference' against the differential railway charges on domestic and imported fodders, timber and cement. The conference passed a remit protesting against differential charges.

Capt. Rushworth quoted linseed meal 'which, besides paying a duty ot SO wr cent, (or 20 preferential) paid 57s 9d a. ton for 100 miles- rail freight against 13s Gd on Dominion Meal.

Foreign timber paid a duty of 5s to 7s Gdvper 100 feet, and also 50 per cent, was .added- to the railway froigjbt. . The conference further passed remits protesting against the high hospital levy, and asking the Government to provide larger subsidies or meet the needs out of. the'National funds.

Another urged lower rural telephono charges. Other remits Were: "This eonlerAne* is opposed' to duties and embargoes on footstuffs. and considers that anv encouragement to growl cereals should be in the form of subsidies." "This conference supports the principle of income, taxation a, s an entirely sound and just means of raising rciyenne when , applied to the indivicl"aL" „ +-I. "The conference calls upon tho Government to remove the duties oft butter, meat, cheese and similar agricultural produce such duties being unnecessary and liable to create wrong impressions." "The conference urges that the principle of taxing-the devfeibl© *nrplus of companies t© abolished. ''The conference strongly. protests any reduction of Income Taxation while Customs duties, remain high." A r<miit that the conference oppose daylight saving wins lost.