WELLINGTON FARMERS'UNION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 8

WELLINGTON FARMERS' UNION

WOOL PROPOSALS CRITICISED. " Br Teletrrabh—Pr«s Association I , Marton, August 28. The Wellington "provincial e««itive of the Farmers' Union resolved: liiat COE fercnce views with alarm tho efforts being made to urge the Government to giant i a meat trading license to A™ours, and ■ ; -j. strongly urges the Government to do all in its power to''keep combines su± 'meat trusts' from operating m Now Zea--1 l£ The Alteration of Time Bill wasdisap■Drofed of; also the export tax. . — It'was Tesolvtd that, havmg w v the fact that on a the world's stocks of wool » coming season \n\\ exceed tno p r : annual consumption, and inJJ ew • - '-tot that Argentin , e "\vooi ha» wrea^y hpen sold'in London at prices flom lGid., the executive is J ■ ■ Hint the proposnl to hold over wool for { reive months assisted by Government ad'ance to growetß, wUI g ,ve any adef nuata relief. It would point eut tliat f any advance must te. based on a=. tage of London parity. In \ producers will tave tp provide l^. 8t °rLo and interest; also Broweis will find ;" fLmselvea nest year with bvo years r : clips on hands, and in aj-orae position that at present. The executive , believes that the ran id and less expensive sea transit ana ' the saViug of exchange and storage, will ' ■■'■■■ IS American and Japanese buyers :: to patronise the local sales in ' tn the English, and urges the govern merit to use every i " : vertise tho coming sales in botn .coun '\:T ' tries'aiid offer snecial facilities to.buyers, ' and 'that the New Zealand Government ••' a( it the Imperial Government to offer I'" credit'to Continental manufacturers of repute wlio desiro to pureliase our. wools.