Farmers' Union.
The Feilding branch is sending on the following remits to the Provincial Conference to be held in Pahiatua at the end of this month :—
That district secretaries be appointed in the Wellington province at the principal centres, to take the place of the provincial secretary. That the Land Act be altered to allow the tenants under the Lands for Settlement Act, to take sown crops off their land before sowing down in grass, and that a crop eaten off by stock be not counted as a crop. That the Government take action to prevent their land being washed away by riverß, and where the opposite land belongs to freeholders, and they do not take seeps to prevent their land washing away, that the Government can compel them to prevent same; and where land has been washed away by rivers, that rent be reduced accordingly.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8189, 15 May 1906, Page 3
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146Farmers' Union. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8189, 15 May 1906, Page 3
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