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N.Z. FARMERS' ONION.

MONTHLY MEETING OF EXECUTIVE

The -usual monthly meeting of the | executive of the Tiiranaki Farmers' ( Union was held at Hawera on Thursday, whdh there wore present:—Messrs R. Dunn (chairman), A. E. Washer (vicepresident), A .R. Pierce. J. <Swin.dleh.urst, .1. Cleaver and G. H. Buckeridgo (hon. see.). Mr. B. Orr, president of the Ngacre hranch, wrote apologising for his absence. He had, he said, sold his farm and presumed that, therefore, according to the Union platform he had now no standing in the Union. However, if the executive desired it he would be pleased to remain a member and bear his share of the liability of the executive, if any.

The chairman said that Mr. Orr would now be a retired farmer, and therefore quite entitled to sit on the executive He moved that Mr. Orr be asked to retain 'is scat. Seconded and carried unanimously. A communication was received from Mr. Marc C. Voullairc, secretary of the Biverlca branch of the Union, enclosing cheque for £6 13s, being 14 levies at 9s Od each.—On the motion of Mr. Pierce, the Riverlea 'branch secretary was thanked for his promptness in sending in their levies, and also for the way that that branch kept the interests of the Union before the public. "They are alive up at Riverlea, and no question about it," remarked the chairman.

MEAT AND SHIPPING PROBLEMS. A communication was received from the Poverty Bay Farmers' Union asking for the co-operation and assistance of the Taranaki executive in making representations to Parliament with a view to immediate and prompt measures being taken to combat the detrimental effect of shipping and meat combinos, not only in the interests of the producers of New Zealand and the consumers in England, but because it virtually affected the Empire itself. They enclosed a number of resolutions covering the whole position.—The Wanganui branch thought a conference should be held to discuss the question of the congestion in cold stores, the erection of cool storage for butter, and the best means of overcoming the difficulties of short-ship-ping—Referring to the latter, the Dominion president, Sir J. G. Wilson, desired each provincial executive to convene meetings of fanners and appoint representatives who could discuss this subject on one day during the sitting of the Farmers' Union Conference. The chairman moved that whilst this executive was in accord with the resolutions proposed by the Poverty Bay Union, they thought that in view of the proposed conference to be held in Wellington shortly, the subject matter of these resolutions should be referred

to that conference. This was seconded and carried, and the chairman and Messrs. Washer and Euckcridge were appointed to attend at the meeting of the dairy factory directors to be held in Hawera on Saturday next to place this matter before that meeting. "LIME DEPOSITS.

Correspondence was received from Mr. r F. J. Cowern, of Kawhia, relative to s the quality and quantity of lime de- j posits available there. ( Tho chairman remarked that it was , no use discussing this matter until they , knew whether the anomaly as to the j trucking of lime was going to foe re- , moved. " In reply to .Mr. Pierce, he said . that under the present regulations no concessions were allowed on the railways miles* the lime was placed in the trucks direct from the kilnr. The Board of Asrieulturo had the matter in hand, but Hie Board has .practically no power. The Board made recommendations to the Minister, and if it suited the Government to {rive effect to them they did so; if not they simply threw them aside. As' at (present constituted the Board of Agriculture was really wasting the time and energy of its members, and the work it was accomplishing was sufficiently covered by Farmers' Unions. He did not suggest that the members of that Board were in any fray to blame; they did their best, but until the Government gave them some powers their labor was being wasted. GENERAL. The hon. secretary reported that the bank account now showed a cr. of £3S 2s lOd. " Tho Marlborough Woolgrowers' Association communicated -with the Union on the. question of the charge of "tare and draft." They pointed out that this was a charge of lib per 1001b* for samples taken out of bales for buyers, etc., and amounted to 4s per bale, and represented no less a sum than £BO,OOO out of the pockets of wool growers in the Dominion.—The executive agreed that this charge should be abolished. There could bo no justification for it beyond the fact that it had been a long established custom. The chairman briefly reported that the .yisit of the Taranaki shareholders in the Farmers' Fertiliser Company to the company's annual meeting in Auckland had been very successful. They met representatives of the company in conference, and practically all the amendments that thev stiffgested were agreed to. They failed on one point, however, and that was to get a Taranaki representative on the directorate. For the election of directors they were debarred from using proxies, but, notwithstanding this. Mr. "Maxwell only failed to bo elected by a narrow margin. The amendment to allow the use of proxies was, however, carried at the annual meeting, and if ■ confirmed at the meeting to have been Md on Wednesday last, will be in operation for future elections. The chairman announced that he resetted that he would be unable to attend thff annual conference to bo held in Wellington next week, and he therefore moved that the vice-president, Mr. Washer, act in his place. It would be a fine experience for Mr. Washer, and it was an education for any man to attend a conference comprising the leading farmers of Now Zealand.

Mr. Washer was duly appointed to art with Mr. Maxwell as Taranaki'a representative at the forthcoming conference.

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Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1917, Page 6

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974

N.Z. FARMERS' ONION. Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1917, Page 6

N.Z. FARMERS' ONION. Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1917, Page 6

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