FARMERS’ UNION

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1933, Page 2

FARMERS’ UNION

NEW STOCK BILL DISCUSSER

MORTGAGE RELIEF REPORT,

(Per Press Association — Copy right.)

MASTER!ON, November 20,

The Stocky Improvement Hill-of the Royal. Agricultural Society was discussed .at length ,by the Wairarapa. Farmers’ Union to-day. The proposals embodied" were strongly supported. A motion urging that the Bill he delayed tilFhext session to permit of consideration was .rejected in favour of an amendment urging that the Biil he passed; as soon as possible with a provision for cases of hardship. t :/■?, The Union-also' discussed the embargo on live stock importations from Britain. A motion was passed that the embargo .should he maintained in the meantime; pending further investigation, but* several speakers urged that the question of admittance should he left to the scientific auth-

orities. It was. contended also, that the present arrangements gave no assurance against the introduction of foot and month disease by animal carriers, or : on plants, or ; packing material. i• ; •■?■•'v • - i ‘

Reporting to the Provincial ' Executive of the Farmers’ Union to day, the secretary; : Mr. Jjimes Watson , referring to the Mortgagors’. Relief Commission, said the requirements of a mortgagee could not bo ignored in favour of. a mortgagor hut there was an ever-increasing tendency on the part of the Courts'to refuse relief recommended by l the Commission. It was this course of action which prompted the members of the Wellington rHiustment commission to retire to their homes as a protest, wherefore the President immediately wired to the Minister of Justice asking for a speedy and sympathetic settlement of the difficulty. The president’s action was endorsed, Mr Hugh Morrison stating that he had been careful not to come between the Commission and the Court.