NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 124, 19 October 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' UNION.

TAEAtNAtivI JLKEOUTiVK The following lv-soiuiiiou, passed by the Auckland executive, was forwarded by the Dominion secretary w> Uhc Taranaki executive, to 'be submitted to their varioua : tatnehes for an expression of opinion: "Than tho Dominion Conference 'be again asked to appoint a committee to consider and' draft a scheme of government by elective executive for tins country in order that tthe tfanaiera' Union may lie able to enter on active campaign to bring this punc.ple clearly before the electors of the Dominion."— Mr Dunn .thought it wa« Une duty of the executive to give the branches a lead in this natter.—.Mr .Maxwell was satisfied that the Union as a whole was not in favor of the proposal. It (had been brought up 'by a .smaill section from time to time, and the Dominion Conference .had disposed of it l>y referring it to the various executives. If tiliis executive referred it to t)he branches they should saiy wliat they thought of it, and lie fell inclined to move that the branches 'be informed that t'lic executive was opposed l» it. It was a most inopportune time to 'bring forward radical changes in She system of government. He mo rod in ilhat direction.— Seconded by Mr Dunn and carried.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS, The proposa.s made by M-r J, MoQueen, of -southland, to Mie General <.-oniei'ence were forwarded to the several branenus, -twined ,n Bill lowm • T>.> principal cUi-u*».s were: (1) AH national endowment Unas acid at the date-of the passing of urns ..■mcrtdtuojit, g i, a j lj as soon as a aui-aDle opportunity oilers, be sold tor cash or with the option oi puixJiiase. 'Where lauds ar e held on lease the option of purchase to be offered to the lessee at the actuarial valuation ot .the .date's interest in the land, and payiiw-nLs 'by way of purchase to be nwu'e by instalments of ■il-Ot Ji o9 * than 10 per cent, of tlhe ascertained value. (2) All moneys arising from the siu'o t' l eadou'CTciH land shall be paid in io a iic.iar.it.- account, to Be , called the National Endowment Ke-in-j-fstme-nt Fund.--.Mr Maxwell pointed cut that this proposal relatied to very mfe-r':vr lanni-. 1,/, li k( .] v to Increase ft' great deal, it any thing, in value. They were at .present Jo.iaod, ilmt it would be ' M great value t o the eocimnunitiyi if they w-Sfe sold am! rue proceeds invested in city properties, which were more likely to ,n-.-fi-a-.. iii-)'->jn.-Jy jji value. The scheme receiver! , rv fiivoraWo consideration at the CMi'-rence—Mr B. Dunn said the prop...-,;.* simply mflant the exchange of -nustments. Land heir. 1 under the k-us,-,:,-I (,-,„„•,, was bou . nd to deteriorate an-., uvery one would adn.iit ti.ar n.om.> divested in town properties would ineri'aiiie much more rapidly than -,i,;,, invested on barren mountain s.des, tor tint was what a let ot -lhe.se hi ;o.Clients were. Tinproposal was a splendid one and should be heartily .5;i,. : .„r1e.!.-Th.> chairman said he, too, w.is i : , favor ~l'ilie scheme, these endowment, were ii-ed largely a« a .hi,..throw.u. r ~:„.ir.e -ud the then Government w:r- -.;• ;vn lt. at credit by a large section -i the <--,jimunity who were unit wan, ; robabl-. that a lam-e proportion of '.he endowments were on the slopes of the South.-m Alps; other* were sand hills ami a lot of other useless 1.".ik1. A gr ■■[ ~ ~(i(. 0 f ;< w . 13 onlyi second an,! .ih. a, u l the-, all knew the nh r- nt .lisli'kc of human nature to even jiru-b out a gorse bush it one hud not ;!-; own freehold property. Hence h tendencv of leasehold land to go back :ir, become infested with noxious we A.. If a man owned the freehold he won'l at least -make some effort u-. - h'-s place clean. 1/lidowment land reu iivd t 0 be kept covered wihih bricks -d nrortar if they were ever to become a satisfactory national endowment.—fie moved that -the -propositi be sent to aill t:h c branches, heartily supported and endorsed by the cxecutive.-Seconde.l by Mr Dunn, and carried.

The meeting went into committee to consider the matter of the organisation of the province. Upon resuming, it was reported that the question had been left i,n the bands of a committee to confer with Che Farmers' 00-operntive Organisation Society and to report a) next meeting.—Star .