DEMANDS BY FARMERS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 8

DEMANDS BY FARMERS

PRAS™ ECONOMIC PLANS TATJQIF • LABOUR AMENDMENT . BOYCOTT AS A!N- ALTERNATIVE. ■ ■ ; •-* " . . - - . ■ ... ■ ; : ; Wu . '. "• . ■ . By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Dec. 20. 'A thorough review of the present position of the farmer was presented from the farmers’ point of view by an economic committee of the Southland branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at a meeting of the executive this morning. The report recommended a reduction of farming costs, a reduction of\the cost of living, compulsory con- ' ciliation but voluntary arbitration, and a reduction of compulsory tariffs. It was claimed that the. farmer was suffering from economic inequality, t>hst '• the “national income was being appropriated to-day by certain. sections of the community,” and that “there was nothing left for the farmers.” Drastic in places, the report urged that in the event of no relief being immediately forthcoming the Farmers’ Union request all its members and . farmers generally to refrain from buy-. ' ing goods'or employing labour until th#' ’ price of these goods and services were reduced to a parity with , the export prices received by the farmers. After a sh-ort discussion the report was adopted unanimously with only slight alterations. ■j. ' < '/ ' . POVERTY BAY RESOLUTIONS OPPOSITION TO MORATORIUM. < f .Gisfobrne, Last Night, Between 50 and 60 farmers of. Poverty Bay met on Saturday to consider ways and means of affording relief to primary industries. The meeting was called jointly by the Poverty Bay branch of the Barniers’ Union, the Sheepowners’. Federation arid tlje A. and I’. Association, and was on lines §iuri- . lar to farmers’ rallies, held throughout the Dominion. Mr. F. Bowen, presi- '■ dent of the local branch of the Farmers’ Union, presided. ' ■! The position was discussed at length ; and the'following recommendations were carried after an animated discussion:—’ “Tliat this conference ;of farmers urge the Acfing;Prime Minister to confer with the (Prime Minister upon his arrival, from England with the objects of assembling Parliament to consider ways and means of relieving the present ‘economic depression of the- country an<L < the farming community- in. particular, and that thef wool committee, set up at Wellington’ be appointed, to represent the farming interests.” .• ' • ‘ 'I ‘‘That the Government'be approached with a view to de-rating farm lands; that'it be a recommendation that extra : money required in the event of derating be obtained by way of in-. . creased tax on petrol; that it be a recommendation there be-no moratorium.” “That the Government be asked ttf" endorse the Employers’ Federation re-?’.' commendation that optional 'arbitration be introduced! in place of compulsory arbitration.” • ■ . ..... 1..' ,W I !■■■■»■■»»——ll I-