FARMERS’ REQUESTS.
SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE.
INVERCARGILL, Sunday,
At the annual provincial conference of the Southland branch of the Farmers’ Union, remits were adopted as follows: —Urging adherence to the present system of land tax, and a fairer distribution of the petrol tax; demanding that the Summer Time Act be not placed on the Statute Book; condemning the flat tax on motor vehicles, and supporting an amendment to the, Motor Vehicles Act so that farmers carting their own produce would be exempted from having to pay heavy traffic, licences. Other remits were adopted requesting the Government to remove the duty of £1 on cement; urging the Government to pass legislation to control the rate of interest at a figure which would bring the individual borrower into line in an equality of service to the .State. Remits were carried to the effect that the Arbitration Court Act is arbitrary in its application and unjust *n principle, and that in the interest o* farmers generally it should be amended; suggesting that the Government be asked to remove protective duties from all industries that have been established 10 years; and affirming the principle of the Legislature working for free trade within the Empire.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17413, 28 May 1928, Page 6
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