NELSON MARKET GARDENERS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14635, 13 February 1918, Page 11

NELSON MARKET GARDENERS.

RESOLUTIONS OF PROTEST,

At a well-attended meeting of market gardeners and fruitgrowers of JNelsoa city the following resolutions were un-» ammously adopted:— "ihat this meeting enter a protest •against the injustice of putting up maperty values while property o-wners are. not allowed to raise rents ilurino- the period of the war." °

lhat the meeting enter a most emphatic protest against a system that compels Britishers of military age to o-o to the front and leave their business,, homo, wife, and family, while single and married aliens of military age are allowed to carry on their business as usual."

lhat this meeting considers there should be set up a body to which an appellant whose appeal has been dismissed by the Military Appeal Board can appeal for a further review of his case."