FARMERS' UNION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)

FARMERS' UNION

TARANAKI CONFERENCE VARIOUS 'REMITS PASSED rretss Association. IIAWERA, Friday. Remits approved by tlie South Taranaki Farmers’ Union Conference were: “That the. operations of the Dairy Produce Control Board should be limited to shipping-, contracts, insurance, advertising* and general care of produce pending sale, without the fixation of price, fljid that the word “control” be elimin.jjted from the title. “That where individual landholders desire to subdivide into smaller areas the poblic works engineer be asked to inspect and report to the Local Bodies’ Loar/s Board as to whether the area is suitable for subdivision and whether half-chain roads would provide suitable ac<iess. “That the Government be asked to nTake full inquiry into the causes which tend to maintain the continued high cost of living. “That any further revenue for the [Highways Board be raised by a tax on “That the system of changing motorcar number plates annually be abolished and identification discs, as used in England, he substituted. '* “That it be compulsory for power boards to earth wire fences where crossed by high-voltage electric wires.”