Auckland Farmers' Union.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7821, 13 May 1905, Page 2

Auckland Farmers' Union.

THE ANTIIKAX ULUSTIOK. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 12. At the conference of delegates to the Auckland -provincial branch of thfl Now Zealand Farmers' Union, the question of prohibiting the importation into New /.calami of bones and bonedust for fertilising purposes, was raised. A committee set up to go into Uie whole matter reported that Oie use of substitutes for bonedust could be oibtnaned at the name cost, but the , use of such would be experimental. R was considered that the prohibition oi importation of Ibimeduut would be seriously detrimental to the interests of farmers i«()|uiiiiig the use of such 'lerUllsws. 'Hie cost of treating bonedust In a sterilising I 1-ant, as suggested by U>e AgiiculL mil llcpartment would involve too .-el-ions u cost fur the committee to r, commend such a course, ami the oiiiiiiiltcc was of opinion that suflici,nl supervision "t tha port of ship ment. on the lines' undertaken by th< Uovirninenl, and continued mspee | (ion nl lhe port of arrival, would

be. the most practicable means oi ■dealing with the anthrax difficulty. ! Concluding, the committee strongly recommended the Government to Hive Ms J. A. Pond's scheme for the I sterilisation of bonedust a. thorough' trial. The report was unanimously adopted. At the Auckland Provincial Conference of the Farmers Union, it was resolved, "That the Government be ' requested to hand to local bodies the royalties derived from timber and • "ax." ,_ , j It was moved by Mr Scruby 'That the conference protest against fruit [ sellers being included in the! six, o'clock closing movement." Most of ', the speakers strongly condemned the I new Act of Parliament, but Mr S. , A. Browne suggested the addition, , of the words, "provided the shop assistants are not required to work | more than the statutory number of ! hours per week." Mr Garland said j this was already fixed by Act of Par- . lia.iuc.nt. The motion was carried. , Jt was also resolved, "That the platform of the New ifcaland Farmt ers' Union be considered by the Cot- ' onial Conference with a view toi I making, it of more practical vilue to the farming community."