FARMERS CONFER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 31 May 1923, Page 6

FARMERS CONFER.

MID-CANTERBURY SESSION. THE PRICE OF "WHEAT. PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM ASnB U 111 UjN ,\veunesuay. Mr G. \v. JLeaaiey, chairman or the V Beat Hoard, speaiiing as cliainuau of the coiUerence oi tne AUtl-Uauter-bury Fanners’ Union, aeciared that agriculture's future rested, on three

oases: The maintenance of a high quality. Seeonuiy, conLrouecl sinpnient, insuring regularity ox supplies. Thirdly, co-operative marneiing.

Tne Meat Control Hoard had a ire ad) saved the producers tnreequarters oi a million, in moving a remit asiting tire Uiovernment to investigate tiio Eastern marneis, Mr JLeuuiey reierreu to tomgapore as the strategic distributing point for millions or itustern people. Tie was nnormed time tlie Easterner was becoming a meat eater, a wool-wearer, and a \vesterner generally. The Meat Hoard sliouid assist, lie suggested, every provincial union to donate a dozen bullocks lor canning to test the Eastern marKets. The remit was carried unanimously. It was decided unanimously to urge the County Councils to plant trees freely to leave posterity a source ot revenue. A motion that the Government should establish a compulsory Hairy Produce Hoard the same as tlie Meat Board, was carried unanimously. it was resolved unanimously to ask .the Government to facilitate sugar beet tests, supply seed and instruct the Ashburton Experimental Farm to grow ten acres. The meeting fully authorised the "Wheat Board to nx the price with the Government at an early date, and lequested other branches to do likewise.

Discussing a remit to abolish Road Boards which are very numerous in Ashburton, Mr Frampton gave the following figures Masterton, total county expenditure £3/,613; adminisT tration 5.7. Ivairanga i £33,792.; 5.8. Southland: £100,000; 7.31. Waitald: £32,652; 11.26. Ashburton: £36,692; 21.00. The motion was carried by a large majority. The meeting discussed cheerily lifting the moratorium next Christmas twelve month. The President (Mr Leadley) said that although £200,000,000 mortgages were publicly registered, beside large sums privately, the crisis would pass without disaster if properly prepared for. Ho advocated a London loan of ten millions to the State Advances Department, the farmers' paying one cent, sinking fund half yearly, A resolution was passed accordingly.