FARMERS' UNION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 29, 26 May 1914, Page 6

FARMERS' UNION.

WELLINGTON CONFERENCE. £P»B PEESi AMOOIAMON.] Wanganui, May 26. At the Fanners' Union Conference at Wanganui the Wanganui remit proposing that the Government be urged to take sole charge of the construction and maintenance, of arterial roads was lost. The proposal that the scope oi the Local Government Bill he such as to enable local bodies to declare ai district over wliich to strike a rate for subsidising medical men working in outlying portions of tho district was carried. A motion that dairy factories be allowed borrow money under the Rural Workers' Homes scheme to erect dwellings for employees was lost. A motion was carried that the Covernment be urged to provide freehold land for workers' homes in the back country. There was some discussion on a'.motion that owing to complaints" of damage to products through absolete methods and machinery employed in Xe.w Zealand ports, Harbor Boards be urged to remedy this state of affairs as soon as possible. Eventually the matter was referred to the executive Motion were carried that country districts should have more representation on Harbor Boards; that the matter of shortage of trucks on the railways be again brought under the notice of the Railway Department; that the Railway Department be asked to remove the differential rate on imported timber aSid thairif certain industries require protection the same should be given by the Customs tariff only and not on Railway freights as well. It was also resolved that the Government be urged to make all the most dangerous railway crossings safer for all traffic.