FARMERS' WANTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 8

FARMERS' WANTS.

PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE REMITS. •Amongst tho remits to be forwarded to tho "oneral fanners' conference arc the following, framed at the annual mcetinß of.the Martori.branch of the I-armors That' the'.executife : of. the Farmers' Union bn instructed to carefully watch any movement.(which'is likely, through pressure on the- Government) to obtain an increase-«f'duties on articles required by tho -fanning community, and to protest against any. such increase should it be urßwl by interested'parties. That as the Local Government Bill, as printed, is against tho interests of tho country people, and not at all what has. been asked for by local bodies, tho branches of the Farmers' Union throughout New Zealand instruct their representatives in Parliament to prevent it Passing, in anything like, its nresent form, especially that part giving electora franchise to voters in local elections, and also that thft Dominion Executive- carefully" -walcli the Bill which is before the House. . , ~ . , , That, in the opinion of this branch, tho executive of the union should take steps to organise a strong opposition to 'tlip singlp tax proposals now being uiged throughout the country. ... That, in view of the damage being dene to the main roads by motor traffic, mojorear owners should be taxed by a road rate, such rate to be spent by tho county council."! on tin upkeep of the arterial That the Government, be urged to remove the preferential rates on hardwood timber and imported coal on the Not; Zealand railways . That the law with regard to the rating of Maori lands is still very unsatisfactory, and should br so amended us to givo local bodies tho "amp powers of 'collecting rales from the Maoris us from other settlers.