FARMERS CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1930, Page 3

FARMERS CONFERENCE

SEVERAI'i REMITS PA, SU'D

i,By Telegraph—Per press Association

WELLINGTON, June 18. A general om.Ki.sm oi tne poiu , of the i\ew Zealand loank.s was main at .itlie rhi'iiicrs’. vpuon vonferencc when an AucKland remit came u ; asking steps be taken, to amend the banking.; system- to 'prevent ,uhiibnibi. action bp tlie Associated Bailies." llie trend of the criticism was that the banks did not operate in the ill Iciest \ol’ primary producers. They were not friendly to the small mail’s interest. The rates were too high and the hanks wbro giMihg big profits back to the shareholders. They were also investing profits a.'oroad instead of giving the beiieiit cif them to the people of New Zealand/ The remit was carried.

An Otago remit that the Government, before proceeding with any land settlement* system' sell cine, take into consideration the cost of L.niiing such land, whs carrred with iin /ilietidment, that before th c fiiifil' purchase the' Govefiijnent' submit" tilp, pfbposiii to the Laiid’ Board or 1 the'district. ".

, A Hafi-kc’s Bay re in it for, lilt ;\mendinent' of tlie Soldiers iSettleineht Act was also ' carried providing lor subdivision taking' place | and mortgage' iability ■ app'ortiiied" a'ecordyig to subdivisions made. ;

An' Otago remit asking lor/ "an imendiheiu of »tim “Arbitration " Act in tlie direction' of prOVidiiig lor roii:mlsory conciliation and 'optional arlitration, was carried. The Court .as strongly condemned by several -:p inkers as Laving placed a m Jos tone ii the indu try. .V North 1 a liter bury remit that primary producers and their organisations should bo allowed to place ividence beJfore the Court in a ,v dispute having a dose" bearing upon industries, was also carried.