GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 201, 29 September 1909, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

FARMERS' CO-OI'EHATJVK ASSOCI \- TION. ' ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Masterkon, Lwt Night. J lie annual meeting of (lie Wairarapa rarniers' Co-operative Association was held tli|s afternoou. 'Messrs, D. J. Nathan, 1.. Caselburg, and V. E. Donald were l'e-eleeted directors, and R. F. Badliam and W. B. Cliennels auditors. I he annual report, showing the Associa'•''a Id be in a sound financial position, wa-' adopted. GATE HOME. Wellington, Last Night. Hie Salvation Army authorities' propose to establish a prison gate home in Wellington, and have purchased a site for it at Maud Hay. It consists of some six acres of land. 1

MR. MASSEY'S VIEWS. Auckland, Last Night. Mr. Massey (Leader of the Opposition), speaking at a social to Mr. Laii" M.P., to-night said the finances of tile country were i n a more unsatisfactory .position than for many yearn past They wanted legislation which, while doing no injustice to the natives, would open up the lands for European sett'omcnt. New Zealand was not going fo--ward: it was going back. The land question was one of the first that should be tackled. Tlivy wanted a policv of reform and progress.

I'I.KXTY OF WORK. Wellington, Last Night. Ilieie is no reason at all for anyone willi farming experience to go unemployed just at present. -For sonic time past the Labor Department has been receiving a succession of applications for this class of worker, and now the demand seems to be keener than ever. .Sonic of the jobs waiting to be filled' have .been on the Department's books for over a fortnight. The biggest demand conies from the Mnnawatu and Taranaki districts. Apparently the only qualification insisted on is that a mail must be able to milk.'