FARMERS' UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 8

FARMERS' UNION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The annual imeeting of the Otago Provincial Council of tho Farmer*,' Union was held tb-dav, Mr D. M. Phillips pr»- *"',"* !*il*l In moving the adoption of the report and balance sflieet, the chairman said the, year on the whole had been very successful. Dealing with the Board of Agrieulitore, .he said he did not altogether approve of the manner of eleetion to t'lie Board by A. and P. aasocialiona He thought the election would be better made through the Farmers,' Union. , A large percentage of members' of A. and p. Associations were business people, :\ml nominations were apt to be nrorp influenced by a man's popularity than by. hisi qualifiestions, whereas ifj the election w?re made by She Farmers' Union every farmer would have ai voice in the matter by joining the Union. Mr J. 11.-gg (Clinton) was elected president for the ensuing year. A piopMul that the Government he asked to reduce tflie freight on hardwood tinvlvT was referred 'to the Dominion Confer"iiee. It wafc decided to ask the merchant to import 31b v<ck* -m ft>» nresent light ones will not st mkl handling. Other resolution- c-nricd ' were tha'consignees be mlvis-d by the Railway Department by post, telenraph, or telephone, of arrival of ;.< >ods at stations \in country distritfa; tint the Government be asked to appoint an expert 4'iadci- to frrade all imported fertilisers and guanas from the Pacific Islands audi fertilisers made in the Dominion, and give a. certificate of suitability for fertilising qualities; that the Minister of Agriculture he wilted for the services or instructors', to undertake short courses for sorts of farmer-;: thai no reform of the Legislative Council will be satisfactory whiclrdoes not provide for simultaneous election ol both Houses, and does not provide for mi ap peal to the country in case, of a deadlock in either 1-loupc; that the. Minister of Agriculture be asked to appoint an analyst to lecture in the various agricultural district* on '-oil analysis artificial manures, etc. A motion that the Government be asked to provide training farms near tin four centres where city boys may learn agriculture, and afterwards, if suitably may be apprenticed Vn fanners On the lines of the KWlgkick boyi-i. and that such training farms bo provided for the training of immigrant*', boys, and men, on similar lines was referred to tile Dominion Conference.