FARMERS' UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 27 May 1914, Page 4

FARMERS' UNION.

welli.votox Di^rmrr m,-..,,., »KCE. • !.v Telegraph—Press Association. Waugaimi, Tue?'Ji,y Tlie Wellington Provincial P;:nfervncc of line New Zealand! Farmevs Pnion "pencil to-day. The president. \h ,| f; Wilson, in his adikc-s, suid tii.il tiling l'.H pone well with the fanners in the Wellington province during Uhe Vl ..j r the crops iiaving ,heen fair onj Liu. results good l , lie expressed pleasure at the high prions wool wa« fVMiin..', which showed (hat the dcmiuic! had overtaken Urn supply, ik-feiring to vocational education he conime'ivJed the work of the Wan K amii K-hiv s vti', n 1V,:,, d for Re progressive ac-iion in -Hi'so! Randan and agricultural in-ti tut-frn. fie suggested! the establishment, .-if a.-ri-cultural niglht schools for preparatory classes, to ensure the greatest (sii-ecss of tlie agricultural colleges. Tie referred to the lack of business method and account keeping by the farrueis, who, he urged, should combine and do their own business. Ko instanced the. success orf the mutual insurance association and farmers' freezing Companies'. With regard to the proposed establishment of other freezing works en the West Coast, ithe president said there might lie room for one, but more would be. courting failure. Every additional company floated made -for' danger if it over came to a between the farmers and the. meat trust. Jtc suggested that one of the established companies should put up works and work tfhriii under the same company. Touching on the strike, he ae.kn.ow. ledged the fine spirit which prompted young farmers and older ones, and for She way they responded to the call "to batons," for the discipline and restraint fhliey showed undter difficult conditions, and for the assurance given that if occasion required they would d'o the sr.-mc a«ain. He hoped that occasion would never occur, but, unfortunately, politicians weTe aiming the. embers.

A remit, proposing that. the. fi«rern m-ent be urged to take soli charge of the construction and maintenance oif arterial roads, was lost.

A proposal that the <vryt of the T.ocal Government Bill br- Mich fls tn enable local bodies to declare i,h« district over which to utrike a rate fo* subsidising medical men working in outlying portions of the district, was carried. A motion itflfalt dairy -factories be allowed to borrow money iind-cr the. rural homes schenws to erect dwellings for employees, was lost. A motion was carried that the Government be urged ,to provide freehold land for workers' homes in the baek country. There was some discussion on a motion that owing to comipVmts of damage to products through obsolete methods and machinery employed in New Zealand ports, the harbor boards be urffed to remedv this state of affairs as sown as possible. TJventunllv ftlhe mutter was referred to the executive. Motions wore carried that i-ouiili'V districts should have more representation on harbor boards; that the matter of the sbcrtag-e of trucks,on railways he again ibrought uii'k'V Ji'ie notice of the Hallway rfcip-iTforrent: tint tl*> Railway Department li« a4;ed to remove the'differential rale on imported timber, and that if certain industries require, protection the same, should he given by itlie customs tariff only, and not only railway freights as well; it was aW> resolved that the he urged to make all the most (lnntjoTous railway crossings sa, f 'er for traffic. Wanganui, Last Night. Additional remits were carried as follows: Thai the Government, in the interests of sanitation, provide hooks in roadside trucks for the carriage of pips to city markets: that the cost of upkeep of (he main roads is so greatly increased by motor truffle that a taxhe levied on motor vehicles, so that the whole cost of keeping Toads in good repair does not fall upon the land occupier.