RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
MEETING OF FARMERS’ UNION [ Ter cress Association J ASHBURTON, Oct. 27. The Mid-Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union adopted resolutions that no local body be permitted to make a donation in excess of the amount permitted as unauthorised expenditure, that employees of local bodies enlisting be granted leave without pay while on service, that the union sDess the need for a national register so that the full manpower of the country could be utilised to the best advantage, and that the union protest against the evasion by Vie Government of the question of how long the control of the pastoral industry would last and urge a commandeer the same as last year. It was stated that the first resolution was aimed at forestalling local bodies being used by the Government as collecting agencies, while the third amounted to a call for compulsory service in New Zealand and overseas.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 8
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