FARMERS' UNION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 198, 17 May 1920, Page 4

FARMERS' UNION

i— ■' ■ MANAWATU Sfjß-PIIOVINCIAL BRANCH.

By Telosrraph-SpeciaJ Correspondent. Palmerston North, .May 18. The annual meeting of .'.lie Munawatu .Sub-Provincial Farmers' Union was held at Palmerston North ou Saturday. _ The president (Mr. H. Vile), in his annual report, stated that the executive ■had been instrumental in getting purebred stock carried on trains during the railway cut, as well as in getting 2Jd. per lb—the difference between the price ruling locally for butter and the price at which it was commaudeersd—out of tlie Consolidated Fund. In the balance-sheet the general account for the year (Sliding April 30»show'ed receipts JG797 12s. (id., expenditure iOM 3s 7d., and balance remaining f-UJ lid.; assets, J3249 9s. lid.; liabilities, .Sl/1 9?: r report and balance-sheet wero ad, rFie C<i following officers were elcctcd rrc-sident, Mr. F. W. Hubbard; vice-we-eident, Mr. C. P. Lynch; traisnrei, Mr. P. G. Million; secretary, Mr. ti. Moon; auditor, Mr. Hunter; n ! ,vl ®J r > 4 finance committee r / Messrs. P. G. Mildon, A. Smith, C. 1. Lynch, A. A. Alsop, J. H. Dixon, J. Bal81A "proposal'was adopted .to hold a mass meeting of farmers diir.ng Nationa Dauy Slinw week at Palmerston Aoith In consider th» question'of furthering the interests of the fanners' unions and to consider suggestions for organising all thfl farmers in the Dominion. A sub-eommit-tce was'formed to draw up a programme Md inake the nectary Eeniits were received and ordered to.lw c e nt to branches protesting against. the use of schoolhousps ns polling booths at elections while there were halls for these purposes.