LAND SETTLEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20247, 16 July 1937, Page 10

LAND SETTLEMENT.

FARMERS’ UNION POLICY. DETERIORATED LANDS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Farmers’ Union conference passed the following motion at its sitting to-day:—“That the Farmers’ Union protests against any Interference with tho right of private‘truck owners to carry their own goods.” A remit from Auckland affirming the principle that, tho administration of funds for reading purposes should remain under tho control of the local representative bodies was adopted, and a remit from North Canterbury asking for the abolition of heavy traffic fees on farmers* trucks was carried. A plank that tlie Government should facilitate the taking-up of land hv suitable settlers with small amounts of capital was added to tho poliev. \ remit from the combined conference at Dannevlrke asking the Government lo bring down a poliev of closer settlement was not approved. Following a discussion, the president said that if they either passed tho remit or rejected it they would give a wfong impression. He suggested its withdrawal and tills was agreed to. Unimproved Value. \ motion urging that, tlie system of and valuation should he amended so is to give a more equitable system ~f arriving at tin- unimproved value for IhujJ st'.yft JJO the conference as a

remit from North Taranaki, was ••i clop ted. ■\iii.>nsr some remits adopted the Government’s land administration was one urging the Government to investigate its undeveloped and deteriorated lands with the view to making the lands revenue-producing under practical supervision. Asserting that the Government’s ed lands was outrageous, Mr \V. ,T. Poison, M.P., said that when times were good the Government would farm ihe land and when they were had, son no else would, it. was time the whole subject was investigated. Mr II Hunt ,North Taranaki) said some counties were almost bankrupt through loss of rates on deteriorated land that had reverted to the Grown.