FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1916, Page 5

FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

r 1 0 LAND FOB RETURNED SOLDIERS/ 1, By Telegraph.—Press Association, j Wellington, Wednesday. After a long d iscussion, the Farmers' p Union Conference resolved to express j satisfaction at the stops taken by the j (xrverTiment towards providing land for j r.viirned soldiers, and also suggest the j, iles'raWlity of making provision at expcrmental farms for the teaching of „ returned soldiers the rudiments of farm- ■] jug so that they may he ahle to take ' Miinlnj ment with farmers and complete 1 tliei'" instruction. The Conference also pledged itself to assist and advise returned soldiers who decide to take up farming pursuits. REMITS CARRTED. The Conference adopted the following remits: That. Native lands, which benefit from expenditure of local rates or Oovernment grants, whether titles are individualised or hold in common, should he placed on the same footing as regards such rates as land held hy Europeans. That, town members of Land Boards he paid for attendance at meetings, the same as country members. That this Conference protests against land owners being singled out io pay a greater part of war taxation, thpresj nit war taxation being tantamount to , a class tax', and this Conference eonu sid ers any taxation for war purposes should he an equitable one, and should hear equally on all classes of the community. That the Conference protest against liny embargo on the export duties. That the Government he asked to inr" crease taxation on luxuries and amusele ivcnts. That the Conference favors the sys'd tem of taxing incomes as being the fairest, way of reaching war piofits from - Ihe land and all other sources. That the Conference affirms the principle that New Zealand should assist materially in the naval defence of the Empire by providing ships and men in iieu of n naval subsidy. That the Conference urge upon the ■,s Government the advisahleness of a putting into operation compulsory miliI- 'nrv se vice forthwith, the committee in n each district to decide who should go to the front and who should remain to carry oil the work of production. CONSCRIPTION. The president referred to conscription enacted in the United States during j the Civil War, and considered it would be a mistake to do away with the volun- .. tary system. ' Jfr. IT. I). Vavasour qnotec an English newspaper, which said that the best service New Zealand could do was to ' c keep on producing, rasher ~,han send more men. His motion as to curtailing !c the calling up of further contingents R was rejected. Bil.