FARM LABOUR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 8

FARM LABOUR

PLAN TO MEET SHORTAGE FARMERS’ UNION REMITS ( Per Pi ess Association.] WELLINGTON, May 25. The annual interprovincial conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, which opened at Wellington on Tuesday, concluded to-day. In a remit from Bulls adopted by i the conference, the attention of the Minister of Public Works was drawn to the fact that farm labourers are still being absorbed into public works by the simple process of leaving farm work and registering as unemployed. The conference adopted a Westmere remit which requested the Government seriously to consider reducing the public works programme at such times as farmers required labour for seasonal work. The following resolution was carried: "That in compiling returns of income for taxation purposes, the loss sustained in one year should be allowed to bet set off against income in the succeeding three years for all taxation purposes and that in the returns of income from farm sources, losses by fire, flood or other cataclysm of Nature or disease, be allowed as a deduction from gross income.” The resolution added that the recent Hawke’s Bay flood and facial eczema outbreak in the Waikato were striking evidences of the justice of the request. Other remits adopted included that the Government be requested to enact legislation enabling electric-power boards and the Public Works Department to provide an insurance fund to meet claims for compensation arising from loss of life and stock caused through breaks or faults in power lines.—Feat herslon. “That this conference heartily endorses the statement of the Dominion president, Mr. W. W. Mulholland, on lhe subject of the Government’s proposed national health insurance scheme.' —Wellington Central Provincial Executive. “That this conference strongly protests against the proposed legislation curtailing freezing companies from conducting retail butchers’ shops as they have done in the past.—Marton. “That the Government be asked to support apprentices for farrier and other similar trades.” —Bulls. “That a protest be made against the Saturday half-holiday being made compulsory.”—Taihape. “That the whole of the motor and petrol tax be utilised for reading purposes." - Wairarapa Provincial Execu-