Farmers’ Union.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, last night.
Tho Farmers’ Uuion Conference adopted recommendations that railway weights be forwarded free of cost to consignor and consignee, and that trucks be weighed for tare once a month, and the weights painted on the trucks with the date of the last tare. Several motions regarding frozen meat sale and distributibn were held over for the Colonial. Conference to deal with. Resolutions wore passed favoring the abolition of the mortgage tax, the teaching of book-keeping and measures of land and timber in schools ; the reduction of freights on the Lytteiton-Christchurch fine of railway ; in favor of selling fat stock by live weights ; and tho tho adoption throughout the Empire of the decimal system of currency and weights and measures. The Conference meets again to-morrow at 9.30 a.m.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 421, 21 May 1902, Page 3
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