FARMERS’ UNION RULES

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 9

FARMERS’ UNION RULES

CONFERENCE’S OVERHAUL POLICY OF LAND SETTLEMENT. PURCHASES BY CROWN URGED. FRANCHISE FOR LOCAL POLLS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, July 19. The' Farmers’ Union ; conference had before it this morning a report of a special committee appointed to overhaul the platform and rules of the union. The committee, which was set up at the 1933 conference, consisted of Messrs. W. B. Matheson, D. Dickie and R.. H. Feisst. Last year’s conference had not time to deal with the matter and postponed the discussion till this year. Clause six was altered to read: “That in order to facilitate the closer settlement of land large estates should be acquired by the Crown at a fair value, and that suitable rural lands should be purchased and homes erected thereon for workers who shall be entitled to purchase them ou a time payment principle. An addition was made to clause nine, which now reads: “That Crown grants and subsidies and sums for expenditure by the Main Highways Board for roads and bridges shall be allocated on a definite basis, and when voted by Parliament shall be at once available and applicable to the particular work for which they are passed. On no account shall they be diverted or allowed to lapse and, whenever possible, such grants should be expended by local bodies. Clauses 10, 11 and 12 were deleted, and clause 15 was amended to read: “That only ratepayers be empowered to vote at any election, or poll concerning any country road board, hospital board, harbour board or electric power board. The rules were given a thorough overhaul and various alterations were made. BED IN EMPTY HOUSE UNLAWFULLY ON THE PREMISES. MAN ARRESTED BY POLICE. . Having been arrested at 3 o’clock in the mornipg in an unoccupied house in Devon Street, New Plymouth, James Kelly, an Okato post-splitter, appeared before Mr. P. E. Stainton, J.P., bi the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday, charged with having been found unlawfully on private premises. He pleaded guilty and was convicted and discharged, undertaking to take out a prohibition order against himself. Senior-Sergeant Turner, who appeared for the police, stated that Kelly spent most of the money he had earned from post-splitting on drink and had gone to the house to sleep, knowing it to be unoccupied. t