Farmers' Union Conference.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11992, 10 July 1903, Page 5

Farmers' Union Conference.

Per Press Association,

WELLINGTON, July 9

The Farmers' union to-diay decidodi to draAv bhe attention of tke Government, to the fioaa'bity of fauna labour,,-and ask the Minister to consider *he question of the advisability to introduce a nominated system of immigration.. Gomjplaint was miaide of the admlilnistration of the Stock; Act, and tlie low rat© of compensaitdon paid for antimiaAs ordjered to be destroyed. The sale of seeds and! manures was oomjmented on, and a proposal was carriedi in favour of legislat.on permitting tine publicaitiion of tests and; all information as to purity, .etc. A. resolution suggesting that more acteye steps should be taken im cer,tain districts to erudioate noxious weeds on Crown lands- was passed. v^ELLIN.GTON, July 9.

At the Farmers' Union Conference _ a long discussion took place ml regard to preferential trade, at the conclusion of which it was resolved that tn-s conference, representing at<Jut twenty thousand New: Zealand farmers, assures Mr. Chambeiflainj of its sympathy with his endeavours to establish preferential trade with) thei.Efmrpire, and that this conference urges upon the New Zealand Governmienit the advisability of amending the Custom® tariff in thfa direction of granting preference to British goods..1 : . A resolution was also cariiied urging that a complaint from, the Waaikato Farmers' Club"regarding the refusail of the Customs Department to remit duty ort a road-grad-ing imiaoMna be considered by tihe Colonial Council; that the Government be requested to prevent tihe* destruction of all native forest suitable for milling purposes; and that) it should subsidise 'local bodies foi< planting reserves: that thia attention of the Premier be called to the tmieagre representation of the farming io.terie'sts im the LegMaitive Council, arad that 'he shall make such appointments as will plac© themi at least on an equality wiitih other interestis; that a protest be madia against (the levying of iincomie tax on co-operative dairy ; companies; that tlhe conference endeavouir to .prevent the rCansummaationi of the proposals madle by the Trade Uriion Conference to increase the land tax and reduce duties on the necessaries of life; that the confenenda heartily supports Mr. Kirkbride, M.H.R., in big endeavour to obtain legiislatiion under which the fanners can tmiite for Ohe purpose of aniutual fire insurance; that the agitation for a State Banik is not in tJi;e best interests of the colony; that disapproval be expressed of he present depairtmental conditions obtaining at country telephone bureaux.

To-night"the conference is sitting-in coanimittee on matters of policy and! rules.