FARMERS' UNION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 16, 13 July 1911, Page 7

FARMERS' UNION

DOMINION CONFERENCE. TARANA'KI REMITS. Following arc the Taranaki remits <to be considered at the Dominion Conference of the Farmers' Union, which opens in Wellington on the '2sth inst.: — "That the pasteurisation of inilk and whey be made compulsory." "That branches be urged to experims'iG with manures, crops and fodders.'-

"That in comparatively clean districts the Noxious Weeds Act be more rigorously enierfcd." "That individuals who may have a Government mortgage over their properties li-ive the right to insure in any reputable, office.* "That this Conference protests against auctioneers discriminating between dairy dry stock, the five per cent, commission charged for dairy stock being excessive when sold in lots of five or, more."

"That the Government be urged to take immediate steps to abolish the ixtra charge made on imported timbers tarried on the New Zealand railways, particularly in reference to hardwood timbers, which are largely used by local bodies."

"That candidates failing to give pledges to support the 'three following questions in Parliament be not supported by the Farmers' Union: (1) Freehold for land tenure; (2) tariff for revenue purposes only; and (3) freedom of contract." "That, seeing the great importance of the dairy industry, in New Zealand, this Conferences urges dairy companies. A. and P. Association, and branches of the Union ts use every effort to foster and encourage cow-testing."

"That the Government be asked to encourage some scheme such as Mr. Sedgwick's, whereby suitable youths can be helped to come from Great Britain to New Zealand as farm servants, it having been shown that the farm industry has been greatly hampered by the dearth of > suitable labor." "That this Conference draws the attention of the Government to the faict that a large number of stallions are leaving this Dominion for ttit Commonwealth of Australia, all of which must be certified as being free Irom hereditary diseases; while stallions that are rejected nre allowed to travel the country, and eventually have a deteriorating effect ou : > horses." "That the Government be asked . n ariend the Land Act so as to give all Crown tenants the option of purchasing the freehold for their lands at the original valua and the difference between the 4 per cent now charged on the lense-in-pcrpetuity and the 5 per cent, charged to tenants with the right-to-purchase, and in future all Crown lands shall be disposed of on the optional system of tenure."

"That the present system of taxing farmers on the so-called unimproved value of their farms be abolished; that farmers should pay tax on their income froi* land in the same proportion as money invested in other industries is texed; the farmer's income to be calculated at 5 per cent, on the capital value of their holdings, after deducting all encrmbrances in the shape of mortgages." 'That with a view to encouraging reafforestation by private enterprise, to supplement that carried on by the State, more particularly with the object of making tree-planting more general instead of being confined to a few localitiafs, the Dominion Conference endeavor to promote legislation so as to exempt the plantation of an acre in extent from rates and taxes and to provide a subsidy being paid to planters."

"That this Conference enters an emphatic protest against the system now in vogue on the Now Zealand railways whereby two or more farmers taking sheep (rams, for ins>tanee) from one station to any one destination, cannot combine together to hire a truck or trucks and send tliem as one consignment; and would urge the Dominion Executive to bring the matter to the notice of the Minister for Railways for his favorabl* consideration."