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FARMERS’ UNION RESOLUTION.
SOME DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, July 14.
The principle of the total derating of agricultural and pastoral lands for reading purposes was reaffirmed by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union conference. There was a division of opinion, however, some delegates holding the opinion that the union should press for partial derating, but an amendment to that effect was lost. The remit carried was an Auckland one, reading: “This conference considers that the present system of finance for reading purposes under the present traffic conditions is absolutely wrong in principle and practice, and demands the total derating of agricultural and pastoral land for roading purposes. It reaffirms the principle that the user should pay. It protests strongly against petrol taxation being devoted to any purpose other than road construction and maintenance, and calls upon all farmers to do their utmost to obtain these objectives.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1933, Page 7
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