FARMERS’ VIEWPOINTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 12

FARMERS’ VIEWPOINTS

MANY REMITS PASSED PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE ENDS (From Our Own correspondent) HAMILTON, Thursday. The provincial conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union concluded here to-day. The following remits were carried: “That to ensure that each member of Parliament shall have been elected by a majority vote, the elections should be conducted under the preferential voting system.” “That barriers to free intercourse between this country, and Britain are unworthy of our profession of loyalty to the Imperial ideal and are not only unnecessary but subversive to the best interests of the Dominion.” WEEVIL-INFECTED MAIZE “That more stringent regulations be adopted by the Government so as to keep weevil-infested maize from being landed from overseas vessels and thereby becoming a serious menace to the maize-growing industry of the province; it being proved that the present system of freezing and fumigation of infected maize is useless.” “That this conference emphatically protests against fourpence a bushel penalty being exacted by merchants on over-weight sacks of maize.” AUDIT OF POLITICAL FUNDS “That the funds of political parties should be subject to a special audit by a Supreme Court judge, and that they be sworn to by those responsible as not having been contributed under any promise or pledge of special legislation.” IF WAR OCCURS “That, in the event of war involving this nation, mobilisation shall extend not only to human life, but to all resources, and that machinery for this purpose should be designed at once.” This remit was strongly supported, and it was suggested that all the labour and money needed for the country should be compulsorily mobilised when war occurred. OFFICERS ELECTED The election of officers resulted as follow: —President. Mr. A. A. Ross; vice-presidents. Captain IT M. Rushworth (Opua). and Mr. R. IT. Feisst (Cambridge); executive, Messrs. W. TI. Allen, W. Boyd, R. Feisst, J. B. Jordan, A. N. Macky, H. C. McCready, H. M. Rush worth, D. C. Snelling, A. McL. Wright, A. E. Harding; delegates to Dominion Conference, Messrs. W. IT. Allen, C. Boyd, R. Feisst, A. J. Giles, J. W. Jones, A. N. Macky, C. G. Munro, A. E. Robinson, H M. Rushworth and A. McL. Wright.