FARMERS' UNION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 9

FARMERS' UNION.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 27. At the Farmers' Union Conference to-day, the following remits were carried:— "That this conference affirms the fourth plank of the Farmers' Union platform, viz., that Native lands which benefit from the expenditure of special and general rales, shall be placed upon the same footing as European lands so situated, and will continue to urge the Government to move in the direction indicated." "That the Government be asked to acquire each year as much as possible of unoccupied Native land and offer it for settlement." "That the Govenment be requested to repeal the Urewera Native Reserve Act, and to throw open for settlement what is known as the Urewera country." "Thai the Government be requested to put on the market at once all lands already purchased from the Natives in the Urewera Country." "That this conference suggests that the Land Act be so amended that where the officers of the Land Board report that second or third class Crown lands, are overgrown with noxious weeds, that the land should be offered for settlement under the following conditions:—(l) Applications to be called for those who are prepared to occupy the land and eradicate the weeds, and (2) a title to issue to him only if at the end of 10 years the Crown Lands ranger reports that the occupier has exterminated the noxious weeds."