AUCKLAND FARMERS' UNION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 10

AUCKLAND FARMERS' UNION

CONCLUSION OP CONFERENCE, , • By Telegraph—Press Association Auckland, May 30. The Farmers' Union Provincial Conference . has concluded., . • Eemits were adopted urging tne Government to provide a more adequate staff to deal with the inspection and purcbaso ! of land for'soldier settlements. Several speakers protested against the continuance of tho regulation of produce prices. Eemits were carried entering a strong protest against the Government interference since hostilities ceased. Eemits that a special inducement shonfd be offered to qualified men to take up the teaching profession in the .Slate schools, and that better facilities be given to back-blocks settlers for getting schools and good. teachers, were adopted. Eemits carried .dealing witln the necessity for providing better financial provi- . sion for settlers to develop their holdings included a recommendation that the Government be urged to vote largo sums to the Advances, to Settlers' Department, • and that a State agricultural bank should be established by the Government. A remit by the provincial executive expressing dissatisfaction with the railway administration and emphasising that the Government should adoot a more progressive policy, both with regard to tho pushing on of new railways and the adoption .-'of more up-to-date methods of administration, so that the needs and convenience of. the public, should, receive more .consideration, was adopted. A remit passed at last conference,. that farmers should own their own ships and .eventually dispose of their own produce, ■• was reaffirmed. • Eemits dealing with tho menace of the Meat Trust' were- adopted as lollow :— "That in view of tho Meat Trust menace it shall be illegal'for any freezing ivorks . to be sold except with the sanction of tho Government, the sa.nct.ion for sale to be , given: only after it is proved that the purchaser is in no way acting for or con- ■ nected with the Meat Trust, tho onus of proof, to rest upon . the ■ .purchaser'.';., "that.thp. Government be requested to.sco that.'legislation is provided at uo\t sion : of Parliament on seven , heads recommended by the Parliamentary Committee in order to keep meat arid shipping trustifrom operating in New.Zealand." ■' Mr.; J. Boddie was re-elected.'president.