MERCHANTS CRITICISED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 16

MERCHANTS CRITICISED

HIGH COMMISSIONS FARMERS’ UNION MEETING Things got slightly mixed at one stage of the Auckland Provug"* Executive meeting of the New land Farmers’ Union yesterday. gestions and motions follower, on after the other without any being reached till it appeared tjat the chairman, Mr. W. H. Allen, o not know exactly what was before meeting. . H _ It all arose over a commtmicau from the Taneatua branch of the uTi seeking support from the central ow on several questions affecting Tarmer. Chief among these poin were the high cost of horse shoew' the danger of the weevil being ir “, duced into the country with maize, and the high commission®’ namely, 5 per cent., charged by n 1 chants for handling the maize. Finality was reached on a ®ou seconded by a leading director *- local mercantile firm, who suppQy* what was literally a vote of census® an action to which his firm was a The danger of the weevil being troduced into the country with ported maize was stressed by J Moody, of Cpotiki. He also oon “ e ®I? D £ the action of merchants i n . c b five per cent, selling commission maize, and proposed that the u n protest against their action. . Captain Colbeck seconded the “The country blacksmith is the P°~ , est paid man in New Zealand to-<W\ said Mr. C. C. Munro. The union » taken action on that question b®* o^. In the general discussion thatsued on the questions arising oU ■ . the Taneatua communication, no crete proposal was brought torw though it was stated that the un had already approached the ment on the question of the from the weevil. . Mr. Moody's motion was earned, the other questions dropped.